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Meaning slash meaning

What does slash mean?
Definitions in simple English

slash Noun

— A slash is a very quick cut of an object, usually with a sharp blade. — The symbol "/", also known as a forward slash in computing.

slash Verb

— When you slash an object, you cut it violently with a sharp blade, such as a knife or a sword. The samurai slashed the watermelon into two in the blink of an eye. — To reduce something by a huge amount. That shop had to slash its prices for their closing down sales.

slash Conjunction

— You use slash to mean as well as or and, used to separate two items in a list. She's the cook-slash-waitress.

slash

— verb cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete — verb cut open she slashed her wrists — verb (= flog, whip, trounce) beat severely with a whip or rod The teacher often flogged the students The children were severely trounced — verb cut drastically Prices were slashed — noun an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind) — noun a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument — noun (= solidus) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information — noun (= cut) a wound made by cutting he put a bandage over the cut — verb (= thrash) move or stir about violently The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Synonyms slash synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as slash?

slash English » English

cut gash hack slit slice cut off whip wound virgule solidus chop stroke separatrix lash diagonal curtail toss thresh about thresh thrash about thrash tear stab rend reduce lop jactitate incision incise hew forward slash flog cut down convulse welt truncate trounce take away take subtract strap split splinter slant skive shorten seize scratch score rip

Topics slash topics

What do people use slash to talk about?
Person Healthy

Injure
States Quantity More

Decrease
Work and occupation Agriculture Land preparation

Clear a field

Conjugation slash conjugation

How do you conjugate slash?

slash · verb

Examples slash examples

How do I use slash in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'll slash your tires!

Movie subtitles

I picked up a good healthy slash in the side here.
I'll slash you to ribbons!
They slash across country, wiping out everything that's trying to evade them.
It was gonna cut right in, slash through, slashed right in, cut right through.
She made one slash and then I got out and I made her drop the blade and.
Ozawa Usaburo has a slash right across his face.
Look I warned you, I'll slash your bloody dizzard!
Cut, slash, and run!
Cut, slash, and run.
Hey why not slash the top.
Oooh! One tries so hard in life to sort things out on an intellectual-slash-conversational level.
Shall I slash your face, child?
Because you can't slash wrists with an electric razor.
I'll slash my side if you could assist me.
If that little reptile should get excited and bite you, why, I'll just make a slash, and I'll try to suck the venom out.
Car Hotel Hotel Slash Echo Echo 823.
Slash him!
Cut, slash, and run. Let's get mounted.
I could finish in half the time if I went like a bull but they'd only slash me wages, so they can get stuffed.
Jerry slash second by two, easter baby third.
Where's the guarantee Grambow won't slash tires next? - Where?
Oh, you mean Slash, that leopard with the scar on his side.
We were behind-seven to six. We'd just started to move the ball, made a tackle. It was gonna cut right in, slash through, slashed right in, cut right through.
One word, and I'll slash your tongue off!
Because you can't slash your wrists with an electric razor.
Slash the the head and leave the hide intact.
I will slash what I slash.
We when we cut, we always slash out.
You may slash them or may bind them.
Torture a stewardess, hold the pilot at bay, slash all the wiring.
Ah, yes, back-slash.
Slash and burn the area.
Our job is to slash the red ink in every nook and cranny. because our company needs the cash for its defence.

News and current affairs

Yet at the same time, the corporate sector lobbies aggressively to gut environmental regulations, slash corporate-tax rates, and avoid their own responsibility for ecological destruction.
Their leaders in Congress are already declaring that they will slash public spending in order to begin reducing the deficit.
Many people believe that the Socialists would not privatize the economy or slash welfare systems if such measures were not absolutely necessary.
Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.
That is what is happening in today's effort, in country after country, to slash spending and bring down budget deficits.
Since the World Cup ended in July, economic activity has plummeted, inflationary pressures have intensified, and consumer and business confidence have collapsed, leading many economists to slash their growth forecasts for this year.
Likewise, US companies have increased NGL production considerably, enabling the country to slash its liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports and expand its NGL exports significantly.
He promised to slash poppy production in return for tractors, seed, and other goodies.
When you are poor, you are more likely to slash and burn rain forest or fish atop coral reefs with dynamite.
He, like William Hague and George W Bush, is promising to slash taxes.
Germany and France - as de facto leaders of the European Union - are haggling over a belated support package, but they have made it abundantly clear that Greece must slash public-sector wages and other spending.
They want to slash the budget not by ending the useless war in Afghanistan, and by eliminating unnecessary weapons systems, but by cutting education, health, and other benefits for the poor and working class.
Environmental protection is also at issue. Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.
The World Food Program, a backbone of the refugee system, has met only two-thirds of its 2015 funding needs, compelling it to slash support to hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
Even Britain under the Tory David Cameron has joined the rush to slash defense spending.
This broad set of spiraling difficulties has led credit-rating agencies to slash Egypt's rating.
This reminds Castro of the economic dislocations that led the Soviet Union to slash its aid to Cuba in the years before it collapsed.
Indeed, firms are still trying to find ways to slash labor costs.
Rather than respond to globalization with more government spending on education, infrastructure, and technology, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980 by pledging to slash government spending and cut taxes.
To build on this, consumers and markets also need to send signals to companies that directly or indirectly support slash-and-burn farming.
Small farmers need options other than slash-and-burn farming to boost their meager incomes.
Most of the new jobs over the next few decades will be created in cities, offering livelihoods to hundreds of millions of young people and, as China and Brazil have demonstrated, helping to slash extreme poverty.
In foreign policy, Corbyn would slash defense spending and abandon the UK's nuclear deterrent.

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