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slash

noun
/slaʃ/UK/slæʃ/US

Etymology

Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin, or possibly from Old French esclachier (“to break in pieces”), a variant of esclater, which is likely a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *slaitan (“to slit, tear”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.

  1. derived from *slītan✻ — “to slit, tear”
  2. derived from esclachier

Definitions

  1. A slashing action or motion

    A slashing action or motion:

    • A slash of his blade just missed my ear.

  2. A mark made by slashing

    A mark made by slashing:

    • He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.

  3. Something resembling such a mark

    Something resembling such a mark:

  4. ›+ 22 more definitions

    1. The loose woody debris remaining from a slash

      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.

    2. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes

    3. Slash fiction

      Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.

    4. 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.

    5. To strike violently and randomly, particularly

    6. To strike violently and randomly

    7. To move quickly and violently.

    8. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

    9. To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires…

      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.

    10. To write slash fiction.

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

    12. 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.

    13. 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.

    14. A drink of something

      A drink of something; a draft.

    15. A piss

      A piss: an act of urination.

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

    16. Piss

      Piss; urine.

      • That bus shelter smells of slash.

    17. To piss, to urinate.

      • If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.

    18. A swampy area

      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.

    19. 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. A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

    21. To work in wet conditions.

    22. Alternative form of slatch

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

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Derived

backslash, backward slash, bandslash, boyslash, buddyslash, dot dot slash, enemyslash, femmeslash, femslash, foreslash, frontslash, hack-and-slash, non-slash, popslash, powerslash, pre-slash, Scullyslash, slashable, slash-and-burn, slash area, slash bunt, slash chord, slashdom, slash dupe, slashfic, slash fiction, slash fire, slash hook, slashie, slash line, slash-mark, slash mark, slash movie, slash pine, slash pocket, slash print, slashtag, slashy, slashzine, femslasher · +6 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA