lash

One of the short hairs along the edge of your eyelid.

• A lash fell onto her cheek.
• She brushed mascara onto her lashes.
• Are those your natural lashes?

Similar words: eyelash

Common phrases: long lash, false lash, lash extensions

A sharp hit with a whip or rope.

• The lash struck his back.
• One lash was enough to leave a mark.
• He flinched at each lash of the rope.

How to use it: lash of something (He felt the lash of the whip on his back.)

Similar words: stroke, blow

Common phrases: a cruel lash, lash of something, receive a lash, a painful lash

An attempt to do something.

• I will have a lash.
• Give the puzzle a lash before asking for help.
• She had a lash at repairing the old radio.

How to use it: have a lash at something (I will have a lash at fixing the bike.)

Similar words: try, go, attempt

Common phrases: have a lash, give something a lash

To hit someone or something with a whip or similar object; to strike forcefully.

• Rain lashed the windows.
• The guard lashed the prisoner with a whip.
• Huge waves were lashing the shore.

How to use it: lash someone/something with something (He lashed the horse with a rope.)

Similar words: whip, beat, strike

Common phrases: lash someone’s back, lash the coast, lash someone with

To tie things together or fasten something firmly using rope or similar material.

• Lash the poles together.
• They lashed the boxes to the deck.
• Have you lashed the load down securely?

How to use it: lash something to something (They lashed the bags to the roof.); lash something together (We lashed the poles together with rope.)

Similar words: tie, fasten, bind

Opposites: untie

Common phrases: lash something together, lash something down, lash something to

Very good or enjoyable, in some local speech.

• That party was lash!
• We had a lash weekend by the sea.
• The music was absolutely lash.

Similar words: great, excellent, brilliant

Opposites: awful

Common phrases: a lash night, absolutely lash