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In video-gaming, the act of pressing your gamepad's buttons as quickly as possible, often randomly. A technique employed by the uninitiated in fighting games, sometimes to great effect, highlighting the brainlessness of the button-bashing genre. The descriptively more accurate and better-sounding progenitor of the 'button-mashing' bastardization.
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