Usually means: Cuts made with a sharp object.
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  1. slashes: Merriam-Webster
  2. slashes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. slashes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Slashes, slashes: Wordnik
  5. slashes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. slashes: Wiktionary
  7. slashes: Dictionary.com
  8. slashes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Slashes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. slashes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. slashes: Legal dictionary

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  1. slashes: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (slash)

noun:  A slashing action or motion:
noun:  A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
noun:  (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
noun:  (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
noun:  A mark made by slashing:
noun:  A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
noun:  (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
noun:  Something resembling such a mark:
noun:  (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
noun:  (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
noun:  (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
noun:  (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
noun:  (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
noun:  (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
verb:  To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
verb:  To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
verb:  To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
verb:  (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
verb:  (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
verb:  (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
verb:  (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
verb:  To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
verb:  (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
verb:  To move quickly and violently.
verb:  To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
verb:  (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
verb:  (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
adverb:  Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
noun:  (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
noun:  (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
noun:  (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
noun:  (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
noun:  (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
verb:  (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
noun:  (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal. [The period of a transitory breeze; a wind shift]
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