slash
IPA: sɫˈæʃ
noun
- A slashing action or motion
- A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.
- (ice hockey, lacrosse) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- Any similar wide striking motion.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction.
- A mark made by a slashing motion
- A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- Something resembling such a mark
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (vulgar, slang) Female genitalia.
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction.
- (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
- (vulgar, UK, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
- (vulgar, UK, slang, rare) Urine.
- (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal. [The period of a transitory breeze.]
verb
- To cut or attempt to cut
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To strike violently and randomly
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
adverb
- Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
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Examples of "slash" in Sentences
- The chef slashed the meat.
- She slashed her wrist with a knife.
- He slashed the line on his notebook.
- Note the slash at the end of the tag.
- A tiger slashed the prey with its paw.
- The slash must be there in the closing tag.
- Notice the forward slash in the closing tag.
- The policeman slashed the criminal and arrested him.
- The purpose of using a slash was to divide the entities.
- There was a missing slash at the end of the line in the badwords list.