slash

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Synonyms: swash, smash, slosh, clash, flash, lash, plash, splash, sash, stash, slush

Antonyms: swash, smash, slosh, clash, flash, lash, plash, splash, sash, stash, slush

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Noun

1. A slashing action or motion: A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
   • A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
   • 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.
   • After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
2. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
   • A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
3. A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
   • 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.
4. A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
   • After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
5. A mark made by slashing: A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
   • He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
6. A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
   • He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
7. A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
8. Something resembling such a mark: A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design. A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action. The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩. The conjunctions and or also . The vulva.
9. A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
10. A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
11. The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩. The conjunctions and or also .
12. Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
13. The conjunctions and or also .
14. The vulva.
15. 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.
16. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes.
17. Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.

Verb

1. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly: To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
   • 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.
   • 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.
2. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
   • 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.
3. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
4. To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
5. To reduce sharply.
   • 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.
6. To create slashes in a garment.
7. To criticize cuttingly.
8. To strike violently and randomly, particularly: To swing wildly at the ball.
9. To swing wildly at the ball.
10. To move quickly and violently.
11. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
12. To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.
    • The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
13. To write slash fiction.

Adverb

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

Conjunction

1. Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
   • Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
2. Used to list alternatives.
   • Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line.

Noun

1. A drink of something; a draft.
2. A piss: an act of urination.
   • Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.
3. Piss; urine.
   • That bus shelter smells of slash.

Verb

1. To piss, to urinate.

Noun

1. A swampy area; a swamp.
2. A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
3. A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

Verb

1. To work in wet conditions.

Noun

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

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