slash

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /slaʃ/
• (US) IPA: /slæʃ/
• Hyphenation: slash

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. A slashing action or motion, particularly:
   1. A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
      • A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
   2. (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.
   3. (ice hockey, lacrosse) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
   4. Any similar wide striking motion.
      • 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.
   5. (figuratively) A sharp reduction.
      • After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
2. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:
   1. A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
      • He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
   2. (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
3. Something resembling such a mark, particularly:
   1. (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.
   2. (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
   3. (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 ⟨\⟩.
   4. (vulgar, slang) Female genitalia.
4. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
   • Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
5. (fandom slang) Slash fiction.

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
   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.
      • She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
   2. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
   3. (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
   4. (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
      • Competition forced them to slash prices.
      • Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.
   5. (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
   6. (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
2. To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
   1. (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
3. To move quickly and violently.
4. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
5. (US, Canada) 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.
6. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.

Adverb

slash (not comparable)

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

Conjunction

slash

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.

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
2. (vulgar, UK, slang) A piss: an act of urination.
   • Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. (UK, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. (US) A swampy area; a swamp.
2. (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

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

Anagrams

• LSSAH

Noun

slash n (plural slash-uri)

1. slash (sign)

Noun

slash m (plural slash)

1. (punctuation) slash