Bashing
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Jump Super Stars lets you get a KO by knocking someone out of the "panels" (after bashing your way through the side of the page).
Source: Ring Out -
She starts out the movie as a mousey, cringing Damsel in Distress, but by the end of it she's throwing switchblades, burning Zolo with his own cigar, bashing him with a broken board right in his handless stump, knocking him onto a lantern, and dodging so that he falls into a pit of crocodiles.
Source: Film / Romancing the Stone -
He then has a life-or-death struggle with himself, flinging the gun out of his own hand and bashing his own face against the floor, then runs out of ammo, then pistol-whips himself, knocking himself out of an upstairs window and landing at the feet of the mob boss who hired him in the first place.
Source: Series / The Kids in the Hall
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