Usually means: Run quickly; short, fast sprint.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dash, dash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dash, dash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dash, dash: Wordnik
  7. dash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dash, dash: Wiktionary
  9. dash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. DASH: Dictionary.com
  13. dash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DASH (bus), DASH, Dash (The Incredibles), Dash (boutique), Dash (cooking), Dash (cryptocurrency), Dash (detergent), Dash (disambiguation), Dash (punctuation), Dash (rapper), Dash (shell), Dash (spaniel), Dash (typography), Dash, Dash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dash: Rhymezone
  19. dash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dash: Free Dictionary
  22. dash: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. dash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Dash, dash: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. dash: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. dash: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dash (punctuation), dash: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dash (punctuation), dash: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dash: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  4. DASH: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. dash: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dash: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash, dash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. D.A.S.H, dash: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dash: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dash: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (typography) Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar).
noun:  (computing) A hyphen or minus sign.
noun:  (by extension) The longer of the two symbols of Morse code.
noun:  A short run, flight.
noun:  A rushing or violent onset.
noun:  Violent strike; a whack.
noun:  A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) A slight admixture.
noun:  Ostentatious vigor.
noun:  A dashboard.
noun:  (Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia) A bribe or gratuity; a gift.
noun:  (dated, euphemistic) A stand-in for a censored word, like "Devil" or "damn". (Compare deuce.)
noun:  (Internet, informal) The dashboard of a Tumblr user.
verb:  (intransitive) To run quickly or for a short distance.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To leave or depart.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy by striking (against).
verb:  (transitive) To throw violently.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sprinkle; to splatter.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality.
verb:  (transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.
verb:  (transitive) To dishearten; to sadden.
verb:  (transitive, usually with down or off) To complete hastily.
verb:  (transitive) To draw or write quickly; jot.
verb:  (transitive, dated, euphemistic) Damn (in forming oaths).
noun:  A topographic surname.
noun:  (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  (web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.

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