SLASH | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th century

cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword

cut with wide, sweeping movement

• for what felt like hours we climbed behind the trackers slashing the undergrowth ahead
• a tyre was slashed on my car
• the man slashed at him with a sword

lash, whip, or thrash

lash, whip, or thrash

• slash him with bridle-reins and dog-whips!

a wide, sweeping stroke made with a knife or sword

cut made with wide, sweeping stroke

• the man took a mighty slash at his head with a large sword

an oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g. and/or), in fractions (e.g. 3/4), in ratios (e.g. miles/day), or between separate elements of a text

oblique stroke (/) in print or writing

• sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes

an act of urinating

act of urinating

• Gary went upstairs for a slash

debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees

debris resulting from felling or destruction of trees

• the mountainsides were strewn with slash

from slash (sense 2 of the noun), as a verbal representation of the symbol

used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature

used to denote either or both of stated possibilities

• a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant
• a model slash actress
• the most insane-slash-brilliant manoeuvre in the show's history