Usually means: Cut made with sweeping motion.
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  1. slash: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slash, slash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slash, slash: Wordnik
  7. slash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slash: Wiktionary
  9. slash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slash: Dictionary.com
  13. slash (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slash (CMS), Slash (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Slash (album), Slash (autobiography), Slash (book), Slash (disambiguation), Slash (fanzine), Slash (film), Slash (guitarist), Slash (logging), Slash (musician), Slash (punctuation), Slash (software), Slash (typography), Slash (weblog system), Slash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slash: Rhymezone
  19. slash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. slash: Free Dictionary
  22. slash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. slash: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slash (disambiguation), slash: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. slash: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. slash: CCI Computer
  3. Slash (disambiguation), Slash (punctuation), slash: Encyclopedia

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  1. SLASH: Acronym Finder
  2. slash: Idioms
  3. slash: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Slash: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. slash, slash, slash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. slash: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)

(Note: See slashed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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