slash

Meaning

Noun

1. A slashing action or motion:
2. A slashing action or motion:
3. A slashing action or motion:
4. A mark made by slashing:
5. A mark made by slashing:
6. Something resembling such a mark:
7. Something resembling such a mark:
8. Something resembling such a mark:
9. Something resembling such a mark:
10. (slang) Something resembling such a mark:
11. The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
12. (slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.

Verb

1. To cut or attempt to cut
2. To cut or attempt to cut
3. To cut or attempt to cut
4. To cut or attempt to cut
5. To cut or attempt to cut
6. To cut or attempt to cut
7. To strike violently and randomly, particularly
8. To strike violently and randomly
9. To move quickly and violently.
10. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
11. To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
12. (slang) To write slash fiction.

Adv

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

Conj

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

Verb

To piss, to urinate.

Verb

To work in wet conditions.

Synonyms

cut

gash

hack

slice

slit

cut off

whip

chop

virgule

solidus

wound

lash

stroke

curtail

diagonal

separatrix

rend

thrash about

lop

convulse

incise

jactitate

thresh about

tear

thrash

thresh

toss

stab

flog

incision

reduce

forward slash

cut down

hew

nick

shorten

hit

skive

slant

carve

abstract

splinter

split

strap

subtract

lather

take

take away

trounce

truncate

welt

mangle

cleave

cut in two

deduct

oblique stroke

reduction

remove

rip

gore

score

scratch

count down

seize

hack at

forest litter

logging residues

forest residues

incised wound

logging debris

logging residue

cut wound

machete blade

logging refuse

abridge

cut roughly

backslash

break

chip

chop off

clear

crumble

crush

curtailment

cutback

dash

💨

decrease

disfigure

disintegrate

dismember

disperse

duff

fist

✊

fraction

fraction bar

gap

gouge

harvest

hyphen

indenture

injure

kerf

lance

lessening

mutilate

notch

oblique

puncture

retrench

rive

saw

🪚

scathe

sculpt

sever

shilling mark

shilling stroke

shortness

shred

slice into

sliver

slot

slotting

snap

snick

strike

swamp

urination

whipping

write off

write-off

draw blood

let blood

take a short cut

tear to pieces

slay all

crack

swing at

decrese

gore 1

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slaʃ/

Etymology

Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.