slash

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /slæʃ/, SAMPA: /sl{S/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. The symbol, /. Also known as a forward slash, particularly in computer programming and web design.
2. A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
3. 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.

4. (UK, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate

   Excuse me, I need to take a slash

5. Short for slash fiction.
6. (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia
7. (ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.

Derived terms

• backslash
• foreslash
• forward slash
• frontslash
• front slash
• slashable
• slashy

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) braces (publishing, music, programming) ( { } ) brackets (publishing, programming) ( [ ] ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop (British) or period (North America) ( . ) guillemets (publishing) ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interpunct (publishing, web design) ( · ) interrobang (rare) ( ‽ ) parentheses ( ( ) )

question mark ( ? ) quotation marks (formal, British) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” ) quotation marks (informal, North America, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; ) slash ( / ) solidus (dated, mathematics) ( ⁄ ) space (   )

Translations

symbol

Chinese: Mandarin: 斜線號 (cmn), 斜线号 (cmn) (xiéxiànhào) Czech: lomítko (cs) n. Danish: skråstreg (da) Dutch: schuine streep (nl) f. Finnish: vinoviiva (fi) German: Schrägstrich (de) m., Bruchstrich (de) m. Greek: δεξιότροπη κάθετος (el) Hebrew: לוכסן (he) m.

Japanese: スラッシュ (ja) (surasshu) Macedonian: коса црта (mk) (kósa c'rta) f. Norwegian: skråstrek (no) Polish: ukośnik (pl) m. Portuguese: barra (pt) f. Russian: слэш (ru) (sleš) m., косая черта (ru) (kosája čertá) f., косая (ru) (kosája) f. Spanish: barra (es) f. Swedish: snedstreck (sv) n.

swift cut with a blade

Czech: řez (cs) m. Finnish: sivallus (fi)

Portuguese: talho (pt) m.

slang: trip to the toilet to urinate

Portuguese: mijada (pt) f.

work of fiction

vulgar slang: female genitalia

Finnish: viiva (fi)

ice hockey: quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick

Czech: seknutí (cs) n., sekera (cs) f.

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

French: entaille f. (3) Japanese: 斬撃 (ざんげき) (ja) (zangeki)

Verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

1. To cut across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe etc.
2. (ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms
3. (transitive) to reduce sharply

   Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.

Derived terms

slash pile

Translations

to cut across something with a knife, sword, etc

Bulgarian: разсичам (bg) Czech: říznout (cs) Finnish: viiltää (fi), sivaltaa (fi) French: entailler (fr)

German: aufschlitzen Hungarian: hasít (hu) Swedish: hugga (sv)

Conjunction

slash

1. Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

   I'm a teacher slash student.

2. Used to list alternatives.

   I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.