Slash (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object)
  1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
  2. to lash; whip.
  3. to cut, reduce, or alter: The editors slashed the story to half its length.
  4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
  5. to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
verb (used without object)
  1. to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
  2. to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
noun
  1. a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
  2. a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
  3. a curtailment, reduction, or alteration: a drastic slash of prices.
  4. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
    • a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule: you and/or your dependents.
    • a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule: She got 3/4 of the answers correct.“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)
  6. (in forest land)
    • an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
    • the debris itself.
  7. slash fiction.
noun
  1. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
verb (tr)
  1. to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
  2. to lash with a whip
  3. to make large gashes in
  4. to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
  5. to criticize harshly
  6. to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
  7. to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
noun
  1. a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
  2. a cut or rent made by such a stroke
  3. a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
  4. US and Canadian
    • littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
    • an area so littered
  5. a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates (18/7/80), alternative words (and/or), numerator from denominator in fractions (55/103), etc
  6. the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)
  7. a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Slash (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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