Slash

Definition: Slash

Slash

Noun

1. A wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut".

2. An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind).

3. A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.

4. A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument.

Verb

1. Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete.

2. Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced".

3. Cut open; "she slashed her wrists".

4. Cut drastically; "Prices were slashed".

5. Move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slash" was first used: 1548. (references)

Note: Slash \Slash\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Slashed; Slashing.]. (references)

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slash

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Indication

Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~".

Crosswords: Slash

Manx (splice, whip, whip of cable).

We came here to rob them and that's what we're gonna do -- beat their heads in, gouge their eyes out, slash their throats (We're No Angels; writing credit: Albert Husson; Ranald MacDougall)

I would breathe a big sigh of relief unless of course I liked him then I'd just hunt him down and slash his tires (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois)

Slash, bathroom (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Slash Dance (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• America's Best Low-Tax Retirement Towns: Where to Move To, and From, to Slash Your Taxes in Retirement!, Second Edition (reference)

• Mind Slash Matter [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Running Weblogs with Slash (reference)

• Slash Your Debt: Save Money and Secure Your Future (reference)

• Slash Your Weight & Trim Your 'Abs' (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is the white button with a red rim, a red slash diagonally through the circle and the word "cancer". The button was produced by the National Coalition for Cancer Research. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Slash pine/ flatwood savannah with wiregrass. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Slash Pine plantation. Georgia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Planting slash pine on the Withlacoochee Land Use Project, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Slash pine seed sown on land use project. Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee Project. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Oman

However, rising oil prices allowed Oman to slash its budget deficit at the end of 2000 to $ 302 million (1.5 percent of GDP), which it financed through drawing down the State General Reserve Fund (SGRF) (Note: The SGRF level is not a matter of public record). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slash": diversified slash disposal ♦ go for a slash ♦ slash area ♦ slash at ♦ slash knot ♦ slash off ♦ slash one's way ♦ slash open ♦ slash pine ♦ slash pocket ♦ slash prices ♦ slash with a knife ♦ slash with a stick. Additional references.

Beginning with "slash": slash-and-bum, slash-and-burn, slash-and-dash, slash-back, slash-grain, slash-sawn.

Ending with "slash": back-slash.

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), prerje (cut, cutting, excision, felling, gash, incision, jump, kerf, mintage, scission, shearing, slit, snip, striking, tapping), plagë (blight, burn, gash, hurt, lesion, sore, sword cut, wound), fshikullim (flagellation, flogging, lashing, whip, whipping), çarje (break, breaking, cleavage, cleft, cut, dissection, fissure, fracture, gap, gulf, incision, opening, orifice, rent, rift, split, splitting, wedge), çaj (break, char, cleave, cut, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slit, split, tea, tear, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جرح بوحشية, ‏شج (scar, scarf, score, scratch), ‏شطب (blot, cancel, cancellation, cross, cross out, delete, deletion, score, scratch, scratching, stroke, write off), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏شق طويل في ثوب, ‏أرض سبخة منخفضة, ‏إنتقد (carp, criticize, fault, find fault, lace, maul, nibble, peck, quarrel, slate, snipe, stricture, taking apart, upbraid), ‏شرط (condition, provision, scarification, score, slit, stipulation, string, term), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏فتحة (aperture, breach, gap, manhole, niche, opening, orifice, overture, porthole, slit, slot, vent), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏خفض الرواتب, ‏خفض الأسعار (deflate, price down, soften), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slosh, sock, sort, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏تبول (evacuation, make water, micturate, micturition, urinate, urination), ‏فتح طريقا, ‏إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, decry, flay, flog, lapidate, pull to pieces, rap, scarify, scourge, slam, squib). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разрез (cut, elevation, section, slit, slot), плющя (crack, flap, flog, smack, snap, swish, whip), намалявам рязко (decimate), критикувам остро (pan, roast, score, slate), шибам (beat, cut, drive, flog, lash, scourge, swinge, switch, whale), цепнатина (chink, cleavage, cleft, crack, cracking, fissure, flaw, leak, rent, rift, shake, slit, slot), пикаене (piss, wee), цепя (cleave, hew down, knife, skive, slit, sliver, splinter, split), съкращавам (abbreviate, abridge, cancel, condense, contract, curtail, cut short, discard, elide, prune, reduce, retrench, take off, terminate, truncate), разсичам (chop, cleave, dissect, hack, slit), рана (cut, hurt, incision, raw, wound), режа (cut, hack, lop, pare, scissor, slice, snip, stab), сека (chop, cut, fell, haggle, hew, incuse, slice, stamp, strike), сечище (clearing, opening), удар със сабя, цепка (cleft, fissure, rip, slit, slot, split, vent). (various references)

Chinese 

深� �, 割傷 , 剸 . (various references)

Czech

srazit (bring down, deflate, precipitate, send down, strike down), seknutí (chop, cut, hack, stroke, sweep), rozřezat (carve up, cut up, hash, shred, slice), rána (bang, bash, biff, blow, bounce, clout, hit, knock, rap, report, shock, shot, slap, sock, strike, stroke, swipe, whack, whang, wound), práskat (nark), mrskat (flap, flog, lash, swish, switch, whip), bièovat (flagellate, flog, lash, whip). (various references)

Danish

skovningsaffald (brash, forest residues, groundwood, lap wood, logging residues), oeksemaerke (blaze), hugstaffald (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues). (various references)

Dutch

afkraken (do down, slate). (various references)

Esperanto

suprenstreko (diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule), malaprobegi (do down, slate). (various references)

Farsi 

چاک لباس , چاک دادن (Rift, Scotch, Slit, Strip, Tear, Unseam), تخفیف زیاددادن , زخم زدن (Gash, Hack, Stab, Wound), ضربه سریع , شکاف دادن (Chap, Shear), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Cut, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), بریده بریده کردن , برش (Broach, Clip, Cut, Cutting, Dissection, Excision, Hack, Incision, Recision, Section, Sectorial, Slice, Snip). (various references)

Finnish

viilto (cut, incision), viiltää (cut, incise, slit), puun jäte (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues), leima (seal, stamp), hakkuutähde (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues), hakkuujäte (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues). (various references)

French

sabrer, blesser (slight), démolir (slat), déchets forestiers, crevé, couper (slice), cingler, écraser (slam), bourbier (Slough), faire des crevés, blanchi, barre de fraction, balafrer, balafre (slice), aller pisser, casser, entailler, taillader, flache, flachi, frapper, frayer, menu bois, miroir, plaque (slab), réduire radicalement, rémanent, rémanent d'exploitation, rémanents, rameaux et ramilles, donner des coups. (various references)

German

Schrägstrich (backslash, oblique, solidus, virgule), Schnitt (average, crop, cut, cutting, edge, editing, incision, intersection, line, modeling, Nick, notch, pattern, scissored, section, serration, shape, sliced, snip). (various references)

Greek 

πετσοκόβω (hack), εγκοπή (incision, indenture, nick, notch, slotting). (various references)

Hebrew 

לוכסן (crosswise, diagonally), לשרוט (graze, scarify, scotch, scrape, scratch, skin), לשצוף (become angry), לקצץ (chop, clip, cut down, hack, hackle, lop, maul, prune, scale down, whittle down), לפצוע (bruise, hurt, injure, mangle, maul, scotch, wound), לחתוך (cut, gash, incise, intersect, jag, scotch, sever), לאבח (kill by the sword), ל�"תקיף (assail, assault, attack, beset, let fly, set on, strike, tear into, tie into), ל�"צליף (flail, flog, horsewhip, lash, lashing, swat, swish, switch, tan, whip), לסרוט (graze, scarify, scrape, scratch), שריט�" (cut, incision, laceration, scarification, scratch), קו � טוי (virgule), פצע (bruise, cut, hurt, injury, sore, wound), חתך (cut, cutting, incision, intersection, section, slit, wound), �"צלפ�" (flagellation, flick, lash, lashing, stroke, whipping). (various references)

Hungarian

vágás (bust, chop, cut, cutting, editing, gash, ripping, scarring, score, scotch, section, shear, slit, stroke), hasítás (cleavage, cracking, rip, ripping, scission, spalling, splitting). (various references)

Indonesian

menyayat (slash into, slice, touch profoundly). (various references)

Italian

taglio (blade, clip, clipping, cut, cutoff, cutting, denomination, edge, gash, hack, kerf, length, section, sliced, slot, style, styling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

火�"� (slash-and-burn agriculture), 斬りつける (to cut at, to slash at), 斬り付ける (to cut at, to slash at), スラスト軸受 (klap-skate, slack, slacks, slap-skate, slash character, Slav, slug, thrust bearing), 切り�"す (to counterattack, to slash or strike back), 切り立てる (to cut, to slash, to slay all), 切り掛かる (to begin to cut, to slash at), 切り散らす (to cut down all, to slash promiscuously), 切りつける (to cut at, to slash at), 切り付ける (to cut at, to slash at), 切り下ろす (to slash downward). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりたてる (to cut, to slash, to slay all), きりおろす (to slash downward), きりつける (to cut at, to slash at), きりかかる (to assault with a sword, to begin to cut, to slash at, to stab at), きりかえす (to counterattack, to slash or strike back), きりちらす (to cut down all, to slash promiscuously), かで�" (consumer electronics, electric charge, email, family history, melon field or patch, miscommunication, mistaken account, slash-and-burn agriculture, telephone call, telephone conversation), スラッシュ (slash character). (various references)

Korean 

내리침. (various references)

Manx

scuitchal (flagellate, lash, scourge, scutch, slashing, switch, whip, whip a person, whisk), scoarey, giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slit, snip, truncate), fanney (bite, bite of wind, dress down, excoriation, flay, fleece, fly-fishing, scalp, skin, skinning, slashing, slating, soak, tirade), beim, baarney (deficit, gap, inroad, interlude, interstice). (various references)

Pig Latin

ashslay.(various references)

Portuguese

golpear (bang, biff, bob, bust, clap, club, ding, dint, hack, hit, knock, strike, striking), clareira (break, clearing, glade), corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, swinery, tailoring), criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, clapperclaw, comment, complain, criticize, find fault, impeach, knock, land on, review, vet), cutilada (gash, scotch, sword-cut), despojos (sweepings), brejo (bog, fen, heath, marsh, moor, swamp), ferida (bed sore, bite, blain, bruise, cut, hurt, puncture, raw, sore, wound, wounded), talho (chop, chunk of wood, cut, gash, make, scotch), lascar (break, chip, cleave, scale, spall, splinter, split), marcação feita em tronco de árvore (blaze), reduzir (bate, boil down, curtail, cut, decrease, diminish, lessen, minify, minimize, reduce, restrict, retrench, scale, scrimp, shorten, sink, skimp, to reduce, weaken, wear down, write off), resíduos de exploração florestal (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues), roça (backwoods, country, countryside, estate, property), talhar (chop, clabber, cut out, fashion, hew, hew down, sculpture, slice, whittle), despojos da exploracção florestal (brash, forest residues, groundwood, logging residues). (various references)

Romanian

tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slit, snick, style), reteza (clip, cut, hoe, obtruncate, prune, sever), ranã (cut, gall, hurt, injury, raw, scar, sore, stab, wound), loviturã nechibzuitã, loviturã (attack, bang, bat, beat, beating, blow, box, bump, burglary, butt, calamity, cant, clap, clip, coup, cuff, dash, drive, fib, flap, go, heading, hit, hunch, hurt, jab, jolt, kick, knock, lick, master stroke, pelt, push, round, set back, shack, shock, shot, sling, smack, smash, stab, stick, strike, stroke, sweep, thrust), critica aspru (castigate, flog, knock, lash into, pan, pick oakum, scathe), crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, Nick, notch, score, scotch, slot, snick), cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, notch, round, score, scotch, snick, stripe, wound), ciopârţi (dismember, hack, hackle, mangle), biciui (censure, flog, horse, horsewhip, lace, lash, scourge, slate, swinge, swish, switch, welt, whip). (various references)

Russian 

срезать (chamfer, cut, cut away, detruncate, flunk, pare away), резкий удар (stinger), разрез (cut, cutaway, cutting, gash, incision, layer, placket, rent, rip, section, snip), прорезь (mortise, slit, slot), искромсать (cut askew, make a hash of cutting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, rebate, reduce, whittle away, whittle down), udariti sečimice, udarac sečimice, prorezati (slice, slit, slot), prorez (slit, slot), posekotina (cut, sword cut), mokrenje (micturition, urination), kosa crta (virgule). (various references)

Spanish

cuchillada (blow with a knife, gash, slashing, thrust). (various references)

Swedish

rista upp, hugg (blow, chop, cut, dig, grab, hack, snatch, stab, twinge). (various references)

Turkish

ormanda harap edilmiş alan, ağır eleştirmek (pull to pieces, rap smb. over the knuckles, razz, scorch, score), aşırı kesinti, kılıçla yol açmak, kırbaçlamak (colt, flagellate, flog, horsewhip, lash, scourge, sjambok, swinge, swish, thong, welt, whip), kamçı vuruşu, kamçılamak (flagellate, flog, hop up, horsewhip, lash, leather, scourge, sjambok, swinge, tan, welt, whip, whip up), kesik (broken, cut, disconnected, gash, incision, interrupted, off, scotch, slit, snick), ağır eleştiri (hatchet job, philippic, razz, scorcher, slating), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), rasgele vurmak, uzun yara, yırtık (rent, rip, rupture, slit, tear), yırtmaç (slit, vent), yırtmaç yapmak, yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, lacerate, rend, rip, rip up, Rive, slit, squirm out of, tear, tear to pieces), yara açmak, kesinti yapmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розрізати (carve, cleave, disjoint), розріз (cut, incision, kerf, open-cast, section), хвиський удар, хльостати (lace, lash, leash, whip), глибокий поріз, порізати (cut). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết rạch (gash, incision), vết chém, vết cắt đường rạch. (various references)

Welsh

llachio (lash), llach (lash). (various references)

garser. (various references)

esclachier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "slash": slashed, slasher, slashers, slashes, slashing, slashingly, slashings. (additional references)

Words ending with "slash": backslash. (additional references)

Words containing "slash": backslashes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Slash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: salah, salahs, Salihu, salish, salzach, Sasho, slas, slaz, sleh, Slisz, sls, sluagh, smlas, snash. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lash, lass, sals, sash.

-2 letters: als, ash, ass, has, las, sal, sha.

-3 letters: ah, al, as, ha, la, sh.

+1 letter: hassel, hassle, lashes, selahs, shales, shauls, shawls, sheals, shoals, splash.

+2 letters: ashlars, ashlers, ashless, clashes, flashes, hansels, hapless, haslets, hassels, hassled, hassles, hatless, lashers, lashins, leashes, plashes, saltish, shaloms, shaslik, sheilas, sheltas, slashed, slasher, slashes, slavish, splashy, sulphas, tahsils.

+3 letters: alphosis, ashfalls, asphalts, bashlyks, bathless, calashes, cashless, chadless, clashers, flashers, galoshes, gasohols, hairless, haleness, halfness, haltless, handless, handsels, haploses, haplosis, harmless, harslets, hassling, headless, heatless, heliasts, lashings, lashkars, lavishes, marshals, nathless, palships, paschals, pathless, plashers, sahiwals, sailfish, salchows, saltbush, satchels, scholars, seashell, shackles, shaliest, shallops, shallots, shallows, shambles, shashlik, shasliks, shellacs, shiplaps, shoalest, slapdash, slashers, slashing, slatches, slathers, smallish, splashed, splasher, splashes, stablish, stealths, thawless, unlashes.