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slash1
verb slashes, slashed, slashing
    tr & intr
    1. To make sweeping cuts or cutting strokes, especially repeatedly.
    2. To cut by striking violently and often randomly.
      Thesaurus: cut, slit, sever, incise.
    3. To make long cuts or gashes in something.
    4. To slit (a garment) so as to reveal the lining or material underneath.
    5. colloq
      To reduce (prices, etc) suddenly and drastically.
noun slashes
    1. A sweeping cutting stroke.
    2. A long and sometimes deep cut.
      Thesaurus: gash, cut, laceration, incision, rip.
    3. An oblique line (/) in writing or printing; a solidus.
      Form: slash mark (also)
    4. A cut in cloth intended to reveal the colours or material underneath.
Derivative: slashed
adj
    Derivative: slasher
    noun
      Derivative: slashing
      noun, adj
        Etymology: 14c: probably from French esclachier to break.





        slash2 (coarse) (slang)
        verb
          intr
          slashes, slashed, slashing
          1. To urinate.
        noun
          slashes
          1. An act of urinating.
        Etymology: 1970s: perhaps from Scots dialect, meaning ‘large splash'.



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