Slash
Definitions
- A drink of something; a draft.
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A swampy area; a swamp. Eastern, US
- A slashing action or motion:
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- Piss; urine.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- A mark made by slashing:
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- Something resembling such a mark:
- A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
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A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action. Canada, US
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- The vulva.
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The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal. Canada, US
- A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
- Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
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.]”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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