slashy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.

   • Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one.
   • Blade Warriors the game reviewed today is the first Onimusha game to come with a play style of its own It is a slashy fighting game with clanging swords
2. 2

   resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)

   • It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name,
3. 3

   wet, having wet ground, slushy

   • Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships
   • The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult.
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   1. 4

      making a movement akin to swiping a sword.

      • Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus.
      • "He is a very slashy player. Every time a shot goes up, I have to find him and know where he is at all times because he is a great offensive rebounder..."
   2. 5

      darting, running in a zigzag motion

      • "Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them..."
   3. 6

      of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas…

      of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush

      • In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing.
      • most contemporary art Bailey gives us images of classical order and balance In place of slashy brushwork and sludgy paint he gives us solid figures and uminous color.
   4. 7

      slushy, very romantic

   5. 8

      Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.

      • It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.
      • One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […]
      • As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]

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