slash

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]

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]

English

Pronunciation

• /slæʃ/
• SAMPA: /slaeS/

  Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

1. The symbol, /
2. A swift and sharp cut with a sword
3. A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate

   Excuse me, I need to take a slash

4. A work of fiction (frequently fanfiction) based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in a romantic and/or sexual manner. The characters are most commonly of the same gender. The name comes from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.

   Jim/Bob or J/B

5. vulgar slang The female genitalia
6. a quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs

Translations

• Dutch: schuine streep (1)
• Finnish: kauttaviiva, vinoviiva (1)
• French: entaille (3)
• German: Schrägstrich , Bruchstrich (1)
• Portuguese: barra (1)

Verb

1. To cut across something with a knife, sword etc.
2. to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms

Translations

Slash may refer to:

Music

• Slash (musician) (born Saul Hudson in 1965), Velvet Revolver guitarist and Guns N' Roses former guitarist
  • Slash (autobiography), book written by Slash with Anthony Bozza
• Nash the Slash, Canadian progressive rock musician with a mysterious identity
• Slash (fanzine), a punk rock fanzine founded in 1977
• Slash notation, a form of music notation
• Slash Records, a punk record label
• Slash chord, in popular music

Sports

• Kordell "Slash" Stewart, an NFL quarterback
• Slash (wrestler), professional wrestler
• Slashing (ice hockey), a penalty in ice hockey where a player swings his stick at another

Other

• Slash (punctuation), the "/" punctuation character
• Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction dealing with homosexual relationships or sexual encounters
• Slash (logging), woody debris generated by timber harvesting
• Slash Pine, a tree native to the southeast United States
• Slash (weblog system), the weblogging software which powers the Slashdot website
• Slash (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
• Slash and burn, an agricultural procedure
• Slash'EM, a variant of the computer game NetHack
• Feynman slash notation, of quantum field theory
• Slash rating, a US National Electrical Code circuit interrupt hardware qualifier
• A slang term for Excretion

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