slash
verb
[ slaʃ ]
• cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword.
• "for what felt like hours we climbed behind the trackers slashing the undergrowth ahead"
Similar:
cut (open),
gash,
slit,
split open,
lacerate,
knife,
hack,
make an incision in,
score,
rip,
tear,
rend,
• lash, whip, or thrash.
• "slash him with bridle-reins and dog-whips!"
slash
noun
• a wide, sweeping stroke made with a knife or sword.
• "the man took a mighty slash at his head with a large sword"
• an oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g. and/or ), in fractions (e.g. 3/4 ), in ratios (e.g. miles/day ), or between separate elements of a text.
• "sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes"
• an act of urinating.
• "Gary went upstairs for a slash"
• debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.
• "the mountainsides were strewn with slash"
slash
conjunction
• used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature.
• "a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant"
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th century.
slash
noun
• a tract of swampy ground, especially in a coastal region.
Origin:
mid 17th century: of uncertain origin.
