slash
1to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
to lash; whip.
to cut, reduce, or alter: The editors slashed the story to half its length.
to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
a curtailment, reduction, or alteration: a drastic slash of prices.
a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
: Compare forward slash, backslash.
a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule: you and/or your dependents.
a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule: She got 3/4 of the answers correct.“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)
(in forest land)
an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
the debris itself.
Slang. slash fiction.
Origin of slash
1Other words for slash
Other words from slash
- un·slashed, adjective
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Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
Origin of slash
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How to use slash in a sentence
Diced apples and walnuts go into the mutaki, whose filling you can spy through the slashes made in the baked dough, curved as a Slinky toy.
This new Azerbaijani bakery offers stories as good as its pastries | Tom Sietsema | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostBy default, Shopify automatically ends URLs without a trailing slash, but variations of the same URL with a trailing slash are accessible to both users and search engines.
Four common SEO problems with Shopify and how to fix them | Edward Coram James | February 19, 2021 | Search Engine WatchThis can normally be avoided by enforcing a site-wide trailing slash redirect via the website’s htaccess file, but Shopify does not allow access to the htaccess file.
Four common SEO problems with Shopify and how to fix them | Edward Coram James | February 19, 2021 | Search Engine WatchGoogle treats URLs with and without a trailing slash as unique pages.
Four common SEO problems with Shopify and how to fix them | Edward Coram James | February 19, 2021 | Search Engine WatchSlough Creek is regarded as one of the best anywhere for the distinctive cutthroat trout, with its red slash on the lower jaw.
In Big Sky country, a pandemic-era fly-fishing getaway | Carl Fincke | January 21, 2021 | Washington Post
The young man weaves through clusters of bamboo and cuts a diagonal slash into a tree, positioning a hollow log at the end.
For example, they slash the faces of female bar owners who refuse to pay protection money.
“House Republicans slash funding that would help fight Ebola,” thundered Salon.
Another thing about planet tea party: Its occupants still want to slash government spending by massive amounts.
I would have added “no photographs of meditative politicians walking on the shore” with a slash though a silhouette of JFK.
It was shrill, it was penetrating, it rose and fell with a sort of ripping, tearing slash.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandWell, by and by an adder bit a knight's heel; the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the adder with his sword.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)It was a female, somewhat smaller than the ones Kieran had fought with, and having a slash of white on the throat and chest.
The Stars, My Brothers | Edmond HamiltonThe president, the vice-presidents, and the stewards were to have three buttons on a slash cuff, and to wear blue pantaloons.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.I left them as they were, and busied myself with rooting out undeniable weeds and carting off the slash and rubbish.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
British Dictionary definitions for slash
/ (slæʃ) /
to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
to lash with a whip
to make large gashes in: to slash tyres
to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
mainly US to criticize harshly
to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
a cut or rent made by such a stroke
a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
US and Canadian
littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
an area so littered
Also called: diagonal, forward slash, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates (18/7/80), alternative words (and/or), numerator from denominator in fractions (55/103), etc
British slang the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)
a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Origin of slash
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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