slashing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
slashing
- present participle and gerund of slash
Noun[edit]
slashing (countable and uncountable, plural slashings)
- The action of something that slashes.
- The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
- (forestry, in the plural) slash (woody debris)
Adjective[edit]
slashing (comparative more slashing, superlative most slashing)
- (informal, dated) Powerfully excellent.
- Synonym: sizzling
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
- Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game.
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