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Slash
slaʃ
- cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword
"for what felt like hours we climbed behind the trackers slashing the undergrowth ahead"
- reduce (a price, quantity, etc.) greatly
"the workforce has been slashed by 2,000"
- lash, whip, or thrash
"slash him with bridle-reins and dog-whips!"
- crack (a whip)
"he slashed his whip so near the horse that the creature was frightened"
- criticize severely
"it was Lewes who had slashed the book"
- a wide, sweeping stroke made with a knife or sword
"the man took a mighty slash at his head with a large sword"
- a long, deep cut made by a knife or sword
"he staggered over with a crimson slash across his temple"
- a bright patch or flash of colour or light
"the foliage is handsome—yellow and gold with the odd slash of red"
- an oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g. and/or), in fractions (e.g. 3/4), in ratios (e.g. miles/day), or between separate elements of a text
"sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes"
- a genre of fiction, chiefly published in fanzines or online, in which characters who appear together in film, television, or other popular media, are portrayed as having a sexual, especially gay, relationship
"this year's sleeper hit is a faithful screen adaptation of Star Trek slash fiction"
- an act of urinating
"Gary went upstairs for a slash"
- debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees
"the mountainsides were strewn with slash"
- used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature
"a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant"