slash
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slash (plural slashes)
- A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
- A swift striking movement.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- The symbol /. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.
- (UK, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate
- Excuse me, I need to take a slash
- Slash fiction.
- 2013, Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 5:
- Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
- 2013, Katherine Arcement, "Diary", London Review of Books, vol. 35, no. 5:
- (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia
- (ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.
- (US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
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slash fiction — see slash fiction
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Verb [edit]
slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)
- To cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe etc.
- (ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms
- (transitive) to reduce sharply
- Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.
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to cut across something with a knife, sword, etc
Conjunction [edit]
slash
- Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
- I'm a teacher slash student.
- Used to list alternatives.
- I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me
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