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
Early one morning I was passing out hot water, when a man showed me a bucket of blood from his slashed wrists and asked for help.
Like Ryan, Kasich started out introducing alternative budgets that slashed federal spending, but these blueprints went nowhere.
John Kasich: The GOP’s Hobbled 2016 Dark Horse | W. James Antle III | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat figure represents the serious cut that the players took to settle the 2011 lockout, when it was slashed from 57 percent.
2014 NBA Preview: Skinny LeBron and the Racist Ghost of Donald Sterling | Robert Silverman | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe rioters set fires, tipped cars, smashed windows, slashed tires, and started fistfights.
FinnaRage Wants You to Rage at Its Parties. So What if It Ends Up a Riot? | Melanie Plenda | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe classical arts are having a tough time—labor disputes, slashed budgets, and a struggle to fill seats.
The troopers slashed at the men on foot and the sepoys fired indiscriminately at any one on horseback.
The Red Year | Louis TracySavage troopers urged their horses into the water and slashed cowering women with their sabers.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe next day, she slashed and slammed round in an extraordinary manner.
About the Amateur Emigrant, it shall go to you by this mail well slashed.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) | Robert Louis StevensonA little while he kept Frank on the defensive, and then he was slashed in the forearm.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit | Burt L. Standish
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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