slash
slash1 definition
slash (slas̸h)
transitive verb
- to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke or strokes, as of a knife
- to whip viciously; lash; scourge
- to cut slits in (a fabric, dress, etc.), esp. so as to expose underlying material, usually of another color
- to reduce drastically to slash prices
- to criticize severely
Etymology: ME slaschen < ? OFr esclachier, to break, prob. < es- (< L ex-), intens. + Gmc *klakjan, to crack, of echoic orig.
intransitive verb
to make a sweeping stroke or strokes with or as with something sharp; cut or criticize violently
noun
- a sweeping stroke made as with a knife
- a cut made by or as by such a stroke; gash; slit
- a short diagonal line (/) used between two words to show that either is applicable (and/or), in dates or fractions (3/8), to express “per” (feet/second), etc.; virgule
- an ornamental slit in a fabric, dress, etc.
- ☆
- an open place in a forest, cluttered with branches, chips, or other debris, as from the cutting of timber
- such debris
Related Forms:
- slasher slash′er noun
slash2 definition
☆ slash (slas̸h)
noun
a low, swampy area, usually covered with brush
Etymology: < dial. slash, boggy hollow, slashy, swampy, prob. < Scand, as in Norw slask, mud, slush
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