Slash

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush.
  • v. To lash with sweeping strokes.
  • v. To make a gash or gashes in.
  • v. Sports To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.
  • v. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color: slash a sleeve.
  • v. To criticize sharply: The reviewers slashed the composer's work.
  • v. To reduce or curtail drastically: slash prices for a clearance sale.
  • verb-intransitive. To make forceful sweeping strokes with or as if with a sharp instrument.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut one's way with such strokes: We slashed through the dense jungle.
  • n. A forceful sweeping stroke made with a sharp instrument.
  • n. A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.
  • n. A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.
  • n. Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.
  • n. Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees. Often used in the plural.
  • n. Printing A virgule.
  • conjunction. Informal As well as; and. Used in combination and often rendered as a virgule in print: an actor-slash-writer; a waiter/dancer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
  • n. A swift striking movement.
  • n. The symbol /. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.
  • n. A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate
  • n. Short for slash fiction.
  • n. The female genitalia
  • n. A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.
  • n. swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes
  • v. To cut across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe etc.
  • v. to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms
  • v. to reduce sharply
  • conjunction. Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
  • conjunction. Used to list alternatives.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
  • v. To lash; to ply the whip to.
  • v. To crack or snap, as a whip.
  • verb-intransitive. To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
  • n. A long cut; a cut made at random.
  • n. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
  • n. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
  • n. A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cut with long incisions; gash; slit; slice.
  • To cut with a violent sweep; cut by striking violently and at random, as with a sword or an ax.
  • To ornament, as a garment, by cutting slits in the cloth, and arranging lining of brilliant colors to be seen underneath.
  • To lash.
  • To crack or snap, as a whip.
  • To strike violently and at random with a cutting instrument; lay about one with sharp blows.
  • To cut or move rapidly.
  • n. A cut; a gash; a slit.
  • n. A random, sweeping cut at something with an edged instrument, as a sword or an ax, or with a whip or switch.
  • n. A slit cut in the stuff from which a garment is made, intended to show a different and usually bright-colored material underneath.
  • n. Hence A piece of tape or worsted lace placed on the sleeves of non-commissioned officers to distinguish them from privates; a stripe.
  • n. A clearing in a wood; any gap or opening in a wood, whether caused by the operations of woodmen or by wind or fire. Compare slashing, 2.
  • n. plural Same as slashing, 3.
  • n. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes: often in the plural.
  • n. A mass of coal which has been crushed and shattered by a movement of the earth's crust.
  • To work in wet.
  • n. A great quantity of broth or similar food.
  • n. A wet or marshy linear depression between nearly parallel ridges of dunes on a sand-reef. See the extract.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
  • v. move or stir about violently
  • v. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  • v. cut open
  • v. cut drastically
  • n. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
  • v. beat severely with a whip or rod
  • n. a wound made by cutting
  • n. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
  • Verb Form
    slashed    slashes    slashing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    punctuation mark    punctuation    cut    cut down    cutback    trim down    bring down    trim back    trim    reduce   
    Form
    slashy    slashable    foreslash    backslash   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lash    gash    reprove    switch    strike    slit    blowy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Asch    Ash    Ashe    Bash    Cash    Flash    Nash    Tash    abash    ash   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gash    stab    swipe    arc    jab    slit    stroke    streak    stripe    slap