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slash
1[slash]
verb (used with object)
to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
to lash; whip.
to cut, reduce, or alter.
The editors slashed the story to half its length.
Synonyms: abbreviate, abridgeto make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
verb (used without object)
to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
noun
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
a curtailment, reduction, or alteration.
a drastic slash of prices.
a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule.
you and/or your dependents.
a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule.
She got 3/4 of the answers correct.
“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)
(in forest land)
an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
the debris itself.
Slang., slash fiction.
slash
2[slash]
noun
Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
slash
/ slæʃ /
verb
to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
to lash with a whip
to make large gashes in
to slash tyres
to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
to criticize harshly
to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
noun
a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
a cut or rent made by such a stroke
a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
an area so littered
Also called: diagonal. forward slash. separatrix. shilling mark. solidus. stroke. virgule. a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates ( 18/7/80 ), alternative words ( and/or ), numerator from denominator in fractions ( 55/103 ), etc
slang, the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )
a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Other Word Forms
- unslashed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
Any words from Powell or hints in the data that disrupt bets on the Fed’s next move could mean pain for stocks until the central bank does, in all likelihood, slash rates next week.
What would really “move the needle” is if automakers are able to make electric pickups cheaper to produce and can slash their prices, according to Cox Automotive’s Valdez Streaty.
After years of slashing output to prop up prices, key members of the OPEC+ group, including Saudi Arabia and Russia, surprised markets earlier this year by hiking production to levels very few had anticipated.
But he said he had already started to address issues, such as softening U.S. sales, by adding new products and slashing production cycles, before Wilson went public with his criticisms.
In the run-up to July's summit between Sir Keir and President Macron, the BBC witnessed French police wading into the sea south of Boulogne to slash the sides of a boat.
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