If you dash somewhere, you run or go there quickly and suddenly.

If you say that you have to dash, you mean that you are in a hurry and have to leave immediately.

A dash of something is a small quantity of it which you add when you are preparing food or mixing a drink.

A dash of a quality is a small amount of it that is found in something and often makes it more interesting or distinctive.

If you dash something against a wall or other surface, you throw or push it violently, often so hard that it breaks.

If an event or person dashes someone's hopes or expectations, it destroys them by making it impossible that the thing that is hoped for or expected will ever happen.

If you do something in a dash, you do it very quickly, perhaps with very bad results.

A dash is a short fast race.

A dash is a straight, horizontal line used in writing, for example to separate two main clauses whose meanings are closely connected.

You can say dash or dash it or dash it all when you are rather annoyed about something.

The dash of a car is its dashboard .

Dash is a mixture of stylishness, enthusiasm, and courage.

If you say that someone cuts a dash, you mean that they have an attractively stylish appearance or a rather bold manner.

If you make a dash for a place, you run there very quickly, for example to escape from someone or something.

If you dash off to a place, you go there very quickly.

If you dash off a piece of writing, you write or compose it very quickly, without thinking about it very much.