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
- Some of the sites, of course, contain slash fiction.
- Obama had denounced what he called slash and burn politics just last Sunday.
- The term slash comes from the way those stories were labeled with a slash (K/S) instead of an ampersand.
- There was a time when the term slash and burn brought to mind a form of shifting cultivation practised from ancient times.
- I don’t ever remember reading about pliers or vomit in a Penthouse Letters column, but I’ve seen plenty of “hurt/comfort” slash some people claim that term is where ’slash’ comes from.
- I don’t ever remember reading about pliers or vomit in a Penthouse Letters column, but I’ve seen plenty of “hurt/comfort”? slash some people claim that term is where ’slash’ comes from.
- Senator Obama has been saying that it's his opponent who is guilty of what he calls slash and burn tactics and both of the candidates are unveiling negative ads in these final days before Tuesday's primary.
- He is saying that Senator Clinton is really going at him with what he calls slash-and-burn politics, saying that she's throwing everything and the kitchen sink at him, saying that that is distracting from debating the real issues.
- Personally, I've never been much into slash simply because I'm usually not into any pairing that's not canon (which says a lot about mainstream media and brings up the question of how exactly to define 'slash', but anyway), so I can't say much about that sort of trend in slash in general.
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