Meaning of Slash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A drink of something; a draft.
   obsolete, rare
2. A swampy area; a swamp.
   Eastern, US
3. A slashing action or motion:
4. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
5. A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
6. A piss: an act of urination.
   UK, slang, vulgar
7. A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
   Eastern, US, uncommon
8. A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
   figuratively
9. Piss; urine.
   UK, rare, slang, vulgar
10. A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
    Scotland
11. A mark made by slashing:
12. A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
13. A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
14. Something resembling such a mark:
15. A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
16. A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
    Canada, US
17. The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
18. Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
    often, proscribed
19. The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
    broadly, idiomatic
20. The vulva.
    slang, vulgar
21. The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
    Canada, US
22. A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
    obsolete
23. Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“A slash of his blade just missed my ear.”

“He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike⟳ on the goal.”

“After the war ended, the army saw⟳ a 50% slash in their operating budget.”

“He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.”

“We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.”

“Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like⟳ slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark⟳. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark⟳, and other sources provide⟳ the designation oblique.”

“Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.”

“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).”

“Where's the gents? I need⟳ to take⟳ a slash.”

“That bus shelter⟳ smells of slash.”

“On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great Slash or Swamp called ye Roundabout.”

“three acres one Rood and Six pole of Land⟳ … Extending Northward along the Ditch thirty six poles and two fifths of a pole to a slash called Pitch and Tar Slash or Swamp[,] then along that Slash till it come⟳ to the Main Cart road westward …”

“720 acres "lying in the Forrest between Rappahannock and Mattapony river". Adjoins Goldman's land⟳, the line of Robins by and old Indian path in a slash, the land⟳ of Majr Robert Beverley, deceased.”

“Thence . . . to two small pines by a Slash or Sunken ground. . . . Thence . . . to two white oaks by a slash in lowground.”

“Beginning at the North side of a Slash incomposeing Long …”

“80 acres in Amelia Co., in the fork betw Persimmon Slash and the Gulley[.]”

“[…] second growth long-leaf yellow slash. And also we have⟳ a short-leaf pine.”

“Slash pine (Pinus caribaea Morelet) / Slash pine is also known as yellow slash, swamp pine, hill slash, and Cuban pine.]”

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