bach

noun

1. (US, archaic, slang)A bachelor.
2. (New-Zealand)A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
3. (New-Zealand)Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.

   “She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.”

   “Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.”

   “From 1931 until his death in 1982, Sargeson lived a monastic life in a bach at Takapuna, writing in the mornings and tending his garden and entertaining friends in the latter part of the day.”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial)Clipping of bachelorette.

   “When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas.”

   “Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats.”

   “While everyone else is flocking down South for a bach bash, you'll be singing "Oh, Canada," as you spend a weekend immersed in the city's uniquely hip take on old-world European culture.”

   “There are literally thousands of places you could go during a bach weekend in NYC, but take a tip from this New Yorker: Head to Beauty Bar as at least one of your bar-hopping spots.”

   “"Bach parties are a time-honored tradition, but just like weddings, these have become hugely personalized," Lauren Kay, the executive editor of The Knot, said. "Can you get married without one or by taking a solo trip? Absolutely."”

verb

1. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, archaic)To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.

   “I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.”

name

1. A surname from German.
2. Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
3. A surname from Vietnamese.
4. A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.