Definitions for slash

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IPA: /slæʃ/

Slash is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in slash (ahlss).

Definitions for slash

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:
4. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
5. 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: a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule: Compare forward slash, backslash.
6. an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire. the debris itself.
7. Slang. slash fiction.
8. Often, slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.

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:
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.

Origin of slash

1350-1400; Middle English slaschen

Examples for slash

His sword was broken by a slash from a brown bill, and he was borne to the ground.

“House Republicans slash funding that would help fight Ebola,” thundered Salon.

Weedon Scott had believed that he was quick enough to avoid any snap or slash.

Should they break through our barricades, slash at the horses with your scythes.

I would have added “no photographs of meditative politicians walking on the shore” with a slash though a silhouette of JFK.

For example, they slash the faces of female bar owners who refuse to pay protection money.

Another thing about planet tea party: Its occupants still want to slash government spending by massive amounts.

With them it was snap and slash and get away, snap and slash and get away.

All one has to do is to stop thinking and sag, or stop thinking and slash.

Police say he continued to stab and slash as he returned to the hallway, causing other students to stampede away from him.