slash

noun

1. A slashing action or motion:

   “A slash of his blade just missed my ear.”

2. A slashing action or 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.”

3. (figuratively)A slashing action or motion:

   “After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.”

4. A mark made by slashing:

   “He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.”

5. A mark made by slashing:
6. Something resembling such a mark:
7. (Canada, US)Something resembling such a mark:

   “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. Something resembling such a 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)Something resembling such a mark:
10. (broadly, idiomatic)Something resembling such a mark:
11. (slang, vulgar)Something resembling such a mark:
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 between their names).”

15. (obsolete, rare)A drink of something; a draft.
16. (UK, slang, vulgar)A piss: an act of urination.

    “Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.”

17. (UK, rare, slang, vulgar)Piss; urine.

    “That bus shelter smells of slash.”

18. (Eastern, US)A swampy area; a swamp.

    “On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great Slash or Swamp called ye Roundabout.”

    “three acres one Rood and Six pole of Land … Extending Northward along the Ditch thirty six poles and two fifths of a pole to a slash called Pitch and Tar Slash or Swamp[,] then along that Slash till it come to the Main Cart road westward …”

    “720 acres "lying in the Forrest between Rappahannock and Mattapony river". Adjoins Goldman's land, the line of Robins by and old Indian path in a slash, the land of Majr Robert Beverley, deceased.”

    “Thence . . . to two small pines by a Slash or Sunken ground. . . . Thence . . . to two white oaks by a slash in lowground.”

    “Beginning at the North side of a Slash incomposeing Long …”

19. (Eastern, 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.”

    “Slash pine (Pinus caribaea Morelet) / Slash pine is also known as yellow slash, swamp pine, hill slash, and Cuban pine.]”

20. (Scotland)A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
21. (UK, alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

verb

1. To cut or attempt to cut

   “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 cut or attempt to cut
3. To cut or attempt to cut
4. (figuratively)To cut or attempt to cut

   “All prices slashed!”

   “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. To cut or attempt to cut
6. (figuratively)To cut or attempt to cut
7. To strike violently and randomly, particularly
8. To strike violently and randomly
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 them do.”

13. (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.”

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

adv

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

conj

1. (Canada, US)Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

   “Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.”

   “What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around.”

   ““It’s been a joke-slash-tragedy,” the restaurant host, 29, said of the president’s tumultuous far-right administration as she cast her vote against him in her country’s most important election in decades.”

   ““Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.””

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.”