Talk:Lash

Cleanup

Lashing was marked for cleanup per MoS:DAB. Since most of the dab links on that page could already be found here (Lash), I merged Lashing here and decided to cleanup this page instead. I deleted the following entries because they were either non-notable or unreferred to (for the moment), juvenile, or because Wikipedia is not a dictionary (in which case you are free to move the information over to wikt:lash or wikt:lashing.

• LASH Audio Session Handler, a session management system for audio applications running under the Linux computer operating system.
• The act of drinking excessive amounts of alcohol in a short period of time e.g. 'going on the lash' or 'out on the lash'. Often found in conjunction with 'banter' or 'going on the batter'.
• A means to secure cargo, for instance: stevedores lash containers to the deck of a ship to prevent them from being swept out to sea in a storm. Such lashing implements can be steel bars that are tightened by turnbuckles.
• In flagellation, the infliction of lashes, i.e. cuts strokes with a painful implement.
• Students may use lashing as a term to describe consumption of alcohol at great speed.
• [ sexual intercourse ]In south africa the term "lash" slang term for sexual intercourse is incresingly being used. ie "I lashed her". "She is a good lash". " i gave her a good lashing"

– sgeureka^t 19:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)