slash

Meanings

Noun

• A slashing action or motion, particularly:
• A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:
• Something resembling such a mark, particularly:
• The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
• Slash fiction.
• A drink of something; a draft.
• A piss: an act of urination.
• A swampy area; a swamp.
• A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
• Alternative of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

Verb

• To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
• To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
• To move quickly and violently.
• To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
• To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.
• To write slash fiction.
• To piss, to urinate.
• To work in wet conditions.

Related

Similar words

• gash
• slash mark; solidus ; stroke ; forward slash, forward stroke, foreslash, frontslash, front slash ; virgule ; shilling mark ; slants, slant lines ; separatrix ; scratch comma ; oblique, oblique mark, oblique stroke, oblique dash ; diagonal, diagonal mark ; virgula ; virgil ; whack ; bar
• See cunt
• lash, scourge, thrash
• crack
• or
• and, or, and/or
• stroke

Opposite words

• backslash

Narrower meaning words

• division slash
• fraction slash

Broader meaning words

• fraction bar ; division sign

Origin

• Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier ("to break"). Used once in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.
• Of uncertain etymology. Compare Scots slash ("large splash"), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.
• Of uncertain etymology. Compare flash and British dialectal slashy.
• See slatch