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noun

Slash n.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. (Local, U.S.)

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency. "We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us."

verb

Slash v. t. (past & past part. slashed; pres. part. slashing)

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

To lash; to ply the whip to. (R.)

To crack or snap, as a whip. (R.)

Slash v. i. To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. "Hewing and slashing at their idle shades."

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Etymology of 'Slash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slash" Quotes from Famous Books

... her eyes so as not to meet his glance, and Rosalie, who had heard all about him, flew into a rage. "Peasant! Peasant!" she murmured; and then seizing her son's hand: "Give him a good slash ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... Thro' the dread gantlet; Death gurgles in the gash Of furious-dealt saber-slash; Over them the volleys crash Thro' the trees like a whirlwind. They pass through the fire of death; Pant riders and steeds for breath; "Halt!" cried the Captain Then he looked up the hill; There on the summit still The "Third Company" paltered. Right through ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... booths, and there I sleepit as sound as if I was in a castle. Not but I was disturbed with some of the night-walking queans and swaggering billies, but when they found there was nothing to be got by me but a slash of my Andrew Ferrara, they bid me good-night for a beggarly Scot; and I was e'en weel pleased to be sae cheap rid of them. And in the morning, I cam daikering here, but sad wark I had to find the way, for ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... making no Reply, cuts off his Nose, and throws it contemptibly on the Ground; and the other does something to himself that he thinks surpasses him, and perhaps deprives himself of Lips and an Eye: So they slash on 'till one gives out, and many have dy'd in this Debate. And it's by a passive Valour they shew and prove their Activity; a sort of Courage too brutal to be applauded by our Black Hero; nevertheless, he express'd his Esteem ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

... big blade of the knife, and made a careless and almost savage slash at Maskull's upper arm. The wound was deep, and ...

— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay

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