slash

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /slæʃ/, X-SAMPA: /sl{S/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

slash (plural slashes)

1. A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
2. 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.

3. The symbol /. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.
4. (UK, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate

   Excuse me, I need to take a slash

5. 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).

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.
8. (US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

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

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

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: Bruchstrich (de) m, Schrägstrich (de) m
• Greek: δεξιότροπη κάθετος (el) (dexiótropi káthetos)
• Hebrew: לוכסן (he) m
• Japanese: スラッシュ (ja) (surasshu)

• Jèrriais: slache f, slache en avant f
• Macedonian: коса црта (mk) (kósa c'rta) f
• Norwegian: skråstrek (no) m
• 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
• Turkish: bölü (tr), taksim (tr)

slash fiction — see slash 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

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Translations to be checked

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

• Jèrriais: slache f

Verb

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

1. To cut violently 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) (razsičam)
• Czech: říznout (cs)
• Finnish: viiltää (fi), sivaltaa (fi)
• French: entailler (fr)
• German: aufschlitzen (de)

• Hungarian: hasít (hu)
• Jèrriais: sâbrer, slachi
• Russian: полосовать (ru) (polosovátʹ), рубить (ru) (rubítʹ), рассекать (ru) (rassekátʹ)
• 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

See also

• /

Quotations

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