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| 1. n. plural of slash |  |
| slash | |
| 1. n. A slashing action or motion, particularly: | |
| 2. n. A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip. | |
| A slash of his blade just missed my ear. | |
| 3. n. (cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat. | |
| 4. n. (ice hockey, lacrosse) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs. | |
| 5. n. Any similar wide striking 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. | |
| 6. n. (figuratively) A sharp reduction. | |
| After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget. | |
| 7. n. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly: | |
| 8. n. A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip. | |
| He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek. | |
| 9. n. (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant. | |
| 10. n. Something resembling such a mark, particularly: | |
| 11. n. (fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in | |
| 12. n. (US, & Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action. | |
| 13. n. (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing | |
| http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slash | |
| : http colon slash slash en dot wiktionary dot org slash wiki slash slash | |
| 14. n. (vulgar, slang) Female genitalia. | |
| 15. n. (US, & Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal. | |
| Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard. | |
| 16. n. (clipping of slash fiction): fan fiction focused upon "shipping", or pairing, characters. | |
| 17. v. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly: | |
| 18. v. 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. | |
| 19. v. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip. | |
| 20. v. (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs. | |
| 21. v. (figuratively) To reduce sharply. | |
| 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. | |
| 22. v. (fashion) To create slashes in a garment. | |
| 23. v. (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly. | |
| 24. v. To strike violently and randomly, particularly: | |
| 25. v. (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball. | |
| 26. v. To move quickly and violently. | |
| 27. v. To crack a whip with a slashing motion. | |
| 28. v. (US, & Canada) 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. | |
| 29. v. (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction. | |
| 30. adv. Used to note the sound or action of a slash. | |
| 31. conj. (US, & Canada) Used to connect two or more identities in a list. | |
| Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter. | |
| Read: Saul Hudson is a famous musician-slash-songwriter. | |
| 32. conj. (US, & Canada) 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. | |
| 33. n. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft. | |
| 34. n. (vulgar, British, slang) A piss: an act of urination. | |
| Where's the gents? I need to take a slash. | |
| 35. v. (slang) To piss, to urinate. | |
| 36. n. (US) A swampy area; a swamp. | |
| 37. n. (UK) alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal. | |
