Our management team ask us to join a pizza/beer bash, which is essentially nothing but a pizza lunch held for all employees.
My concept of the word bash still remained somewhere near the name of the famous Unix shell until I looked it up online. As expected, a bash means a party or a celebration. It's a slang.
Anyway, I have a hard time distinguishing between bash and party from online resources. Maybe someone who themselves has been to both of them could tell the subtle difference.
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A bash is the same thing as a party in my experience. The word bash is just a more colloquial or even slang way of saying party. This is supported by a dictionary definition of bash.