What is "bashment"

n. 1 (context slang countable especially Jamaican English) A party or rave. 2 (context slang uncountable music especially Jamaican English) dancehall music.

Bashment may refer to:

• Any kind of Jamaican music, any jam sessions.
• Bashment, another name for dancehall, a type of Jamaican popular music that developed around 1979.
• Bashment Time, an album by Gammy Award-winning Jamaican singer for kids Father Goose.
• "Bashment Boogie," a song by Roots Manuva, produced by Lotek from his 2001 album Run Come Save Me.
• Bashment, a play by British playwright Rikki Beadle-Blair, exploring the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics.
• "The Bashments", name of a ska, rocksteady, reggae group from Ontario, California.
• Junko Kudō Junko Bashment Kudo, 2002 dancer from Japan.