Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dash n.1

[SE dash, to rush about or, n., style, flair]

a tavern waiter.

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[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Dash a Tavern-Drawer.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
, , , [UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
, , [UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
[UK]Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
[UK]Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

dash in the bloomers (n.)

sexual intercourse, usu. quick and adulterous.

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[UK]Amatory Ink 🌐.
‘MommaKin’ EliteFitness.com Forum 25 Jan. 🌐 dash in the bloomers / dash up the channel.
do one’s dash (v.) (also lose one’s dash)

(Aus.) to reach one’s limit, to exhaust one’s energies, to lose one’s opportunity – and suffer accordingly.

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[Aus]Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Aug. 6/4: [headline] HEGARTY BADLY BEATS MURPHY / THE GAME ‘OLD ’UN’ HAS ‘DONE HIS DASH’ / ALL OVER IN TWO ROUNDS AND A HALF.
[Aus]E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 88: He’s done his dash all right. He’s backslid all over ther shop.
[Aus]L. Esson Woman Tamer in Ballades of Old Bohemia (1980) 73: Chopsey: So you want to give me the chuck – me for – Bongo Williams. / Katie: [...] Yes, you’ve done your dash, Chopsey. / Chopsey: Bongo – the beer sparrer?
[Aus]C.J. Dennis ‘Spring Song’ in Songs of a Sentimental Bloke 13: I’m crook; me name is Mud; I’ve done me dash.
[NZ]N.Z. Truth 15 Apr. 6/2: [headline] Doolan Does His Dash.
[Aus]C.J. Dennis ‘Rose’ in Rose of Spadgers 91: I ’ave done me dash / Through actin’ rash.
[Aus]K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 226: The old man’s done his dash.
[Aus]West. Mail (Perth) 27 May 43/1: I’ve done me dash, and had the lash, so I guess I oughte’r know.
[Aus]Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 44: LOSE ONE’S DASH: To weaken, no longer show energy in a task or undertaking. Also, ‘lose one’s punch’.
[SA]H.C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug (1981) II 63: So I done my dash with the sandbag, [...] I made up my mind, there and then, that I wasn’t going to do no more sandbagging.
[Aus]N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 232/2: do your dash – come to the end of your rope.
[NZ]G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 172: Done my dash getting to the big games.
[Aus]C. Bowles G’DAY 104: Well e’s done is dash now. Iffy marries the slut e’s not gettin ·another cent off me.
[US]Vibe Sept. 🌐 And once he’s done his dash on the field, he would like to become a football development officer.
[Aus]Age (Melbourne) 1 Oct. 🌐 Mark Latham, who has probably done his dash as a speaker at career nights for politics students.