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What (who) is slash - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Slash (disambiguation); Slash (fictional character); Slash (comics); Slashes
slash
v. (D; intr.) to slash at (to slash at smb. with a knife)
slash
¦ verb
1. cut with a violent sweeping movement.
2. informal reduce (a price, quantity, etc.) greatly.
[as adjective slashing] vigorously incisive or effective.
3. archaic lash, whip, or thrash severely.
criticize severely.
¦ noun
1. a cut made with a wide, sweeping stroke.
2. a bright patch or flash of colour or light.
3. an oblique stroke (/) used between alternatives, in fractions and ratios, or between separate elements of a text.
4. Brit. informal an act of urinating.
5. N. Amer. debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.
Origin
ME: perh. imitative, or from OFr. esclachier 'break in pieces'.
slash
(slashes, slashing, slashed)
1.
If you slash something, you make a long, deep cut in it.
He came within two minutes of bleeding to death after slashing his wrists.
VERB: V n
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Slash is also a noun.
Make deep slashes in the meat and push in the spice paste.
N-COUNT
2.
If you slash at a person or thing, you quickly hit at them with something such as a knife.
He slashed at her, aiming carefully.
VERB: V at n
3.
To slash something such as costs or jobs means to reduce them by a large amount. (JOURNALISM)
Car makers could be forced to slash prices after being accused of overcharging yesterday...
= cut
VERB: V n
4.
You say slash to refer to a sloping line that separates letters, words, or numbers. For example, if you are giving the number 340/2/K you say 'Three four zero, slash two, slash K.' (SPOKEN)
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Slash
Examples of use of slash
1. Or dramatically slash benefits, the trustees said.
2. The slash in rate was announced by Labour Minister K.
3. All four died of multiple stab wounds and slash injuries.
4. Gordon Brown‘s pledge to slash this mad surge in bureaucracy?
5. NO MORE ‘SLASH–AND–BURN‘ "We don‘t think Americans are looking for slash–and–burn politics and the same old divisiveness," Burton said.