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Slash   /slæʃ/   Listen
noun
Slash  n.  
1.
A long cut; a cut made at random.
2.
A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
3.
pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. (Local, U.S.)
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."



verb
Slash  v. t.  (past & past part. slashed; pres. part. slashing)  
1.
To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
2.
To lash; to ply the whip to. (R.)
3.
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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"Slash" Quotes from Famous Books



... a dive as one could want to see. He split the water with a clean slash, with hardly a bubble. A minute, another, and another passed, the two on shore watching the surface expectantly. ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart

... country, by word and pen, on the true value and destiny of the Colonies. He moved about, a crusader, indignant at separatism, eloquent to knot, and re-knot, the painter. For the slash of the knife he offered federation, and, springing therefrom, a happier, better world altogether. He did not doubt, to his last days, that the peril of the Empire was very real. Neither did he doubt that it was overcome, largely by the wisdom and foresight of the ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne

... can't do more than a thousand things at once. A man can't talk a steady stream and do himself justice, and settle the heftiest kind of questions, and say the kind of things these ladies ought to have said to 'em, and then measure out molasses and weigh coffee and slash off calico dresses and trade for eggs. Some of you've got to roust out and do some clerking, or I've got to quit. I've not got the constitution to stand it. Jim, you 'tend to Mis' Pike, and Bill, you wait on Mis' Jones. ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... and terrible old man, with bushy white eyebrows and eagle's eyes. Very tall, four inches over six feet, very erect for all his ninety years, with his presence there thundered the guns of Drake, there came to the mind the slash of old Benbow.... He had been a midshipman with Nelson ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

... last the guns would not be starved. There was enough high-explosive force available to blast the German trenches off the map. So it seemed to our innocence—though years afterward we knew that no bombardment would destroy all earthworks such as Germans made, and that always machine-guns would slash our infantry advancing over the chaos ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs


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