From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
slash
n 1: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
[syn: cut, gash, slice]
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 [syn: solidus, virgule, diagonal,
stroke, separatrix]
4: a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn:
gash]
v 1: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn:
cut down]
2: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged
the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn:
flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, strap,
trounce]
3: cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: gash]
4: cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
5: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, {thresh
about}, thrash, thrash about, toss, jactitate]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Slash \Slash\, n.
1. A long cut; a cut made at random.
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2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show
the lining through the openings.
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3. [Cf. Slashy.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with
bushes. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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4. 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. --Henry Van
Dyke.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slashing.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF.
esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E.
slate, slice, slit, v. t.]
1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long
slits.
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2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
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3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Slash \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.
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Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. --Spenser.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
slash
oblique stroke
From Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) [jargon]:
slash
n.
Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII
for other synonyms.