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bash cash

What does bash cash mean?

British hospital slang for the small extra payment a doctor pockets for writing a medical report for the police after an assault victim turns up in A&E. A quiet earner on top of the NHS wage. Pure dark humour: someone got bashed, doc gets the cash.

"Three assaults in one shift, that's a tidy bit of bash cash on top of the locum rate."

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What is bash cash?
Bash cash is a UK A&E doctor's fee for writing up a police assault report.
How do you use bash cash in a sentence?
"That assault write-up for the police is a nice bit of bash cash."
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