slash

noun slashes

1. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip. A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
2. A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick. He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.
3. figuratively A sharp reduction in resources allotted. After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
4. A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip. He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
5. A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
6. A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
7. Canada, US A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action. We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.
8. The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
9. often, proscribed Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
10. broadly, idiomatic The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
11. slang, vulgar The vulva.
12. Canada, US The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal. Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
13. obsolete A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
14. slang Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters. Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash betwe

Similar: slash mark, solidus, stroke, forward slash, forward stroke, foreslash, frontslash, front slash, virgule, shilling mark, slants, slant lines

verb slashes · slashing · slashed

1. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon. They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
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. All prices slashed!
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. Canada, US To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing. The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
12. intransitive, slang To write slash fiction. Having read slash for other fandoms (mainly X-Files and Sentinel), I can say the whole gay issue gets dealt with more often in that slash than it does in Trek slash. That's not to say that all the slashers who slash in a "modern-era" show deal with AIDS, homophobia and other gay issues, but some of

Similar: lash, scourge, thrash, crack

adverb

1. not comparable Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

conjunction

1. Canada, US Used to connect two or more identities in a list. Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
2. Canada, US Used to list alternatives. Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line. Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.

Similar: stroke

noun slashes

1. obsolete, rare A drink of something; a draft.
2. UK, slang, vulgar A piss: an act of urination. Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.
3. UK, rare, slang, vulgar Piss; urine. That bus shelter smells of slash.

verb slashes · slashing · slashed

1. UK, intransitive, slang To piss, to urinate. If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.

noun slashes

1. Northern US, Southern US A swampy area; a swamp. On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great Slash or Swamp called ye Roundabout.
2. Northern US, Southern US, uncommon A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas. […] second growth long-leaf yellow slash. And also we have a short-leaf pine.
3. Scotland A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

verb slashes · slashing · slashed

1. Scotland, intransitive To work in wet conditions.

noun slashes

1. UK, alternative Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.slatch