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Meaning of slashy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/ˈslæʃi/

Definitions

  1. Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
  2. resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
  3. wet, having wet ground, slushy
  4. making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
  5. darting, running in a zigzag motion
  6. of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
  7. slushy, very romantic
  8. Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.
    slang

Examples

“Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one.”
“Blade Warriors the game reviewed today is the first Onimusha game to come with a play style of its own It is a slashy fighting game with clanging swords”
“It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name,”
“Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships”
“The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult.”
“Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus.”
“"He is a very slashy player. Every time a shot goes up, I have to find him and know where he is at all times because he is a great offensive rebounder..."”
“"Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them..."”
“In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing.”
“most contemporary art Bailey gives us images of classical order and balance In place of slashy brushwork and sludgy paint he gives us solid figures and uminous color.”
“It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.”
“One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […]”
“As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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