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.

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