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slash

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What does slash mean?

noun

  1. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
  2. A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
  3. (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
More meanings (35)

noun

  1. A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
  2. A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
  3. A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
  4. A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
  5. The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
  6. Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
  7. The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
  8. The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
  9. (slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
  10. A swampy area; a swamp.
  11. A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
  12. A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
  13. Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
  14. (slang, vulgar) The vulva.
  15. (obsolete) A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
  16. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
  17. (slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
  18. (rare, slang, vulgar) Piss; urine.

verb

  1. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
  2. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
  3. To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
  4. (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
  5. To create slashes in a garment.
  6. (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
  7. To strike violently and randomly, particularly
  8. To swing wildly at the ball.
  9. To move quickly and violently.
  10. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
  11. To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
  12. (slang) To write slash fiction.
  13. (slang) To piss, to urinate.
  14. To work in wet conditions.

adverb

  1. Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

conjunction

  1. Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
  2. Used to list alternatives.
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IPA pronunciation

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See this word in context.

Here’s snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber’s shop.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
MENALCAS Ay, then, I warrant, when they saw me slash Micon's young vines and trees with spiteful hook.
VirgilThe Bucolics and EcloguesProject Gutenberg ebook #230
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It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash and the quick wolf snap.
Jack LondonThe call of the wildProject Gutenberg ebook #215
They treated Cutler with a certain solemn attention, and pointed out that he had got a slight slash on the hand.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonThe wisdom of Father BrownProject Gutenberg ebook #223
In using it they slash right and left with a quick downward stroke, drawing the blade quickly toward them as they strike.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818