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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