slash
noun/slæʃ/
/slæʃ/
- [countable] a sharp movement made with a knife, etc. in order to cut somebody/something
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- [countable] a long narrow wound or cut
- a slash across his right cheek
- (figurative) Her mouth was a slash of red lipstick.
- [countable] (British English also oblique)the symbol (/) used to show alternatives, as in lunch and/or dinner and 4/5 people and to write fractions, as in ¾
- He brought his girlfriend-slash-partner.
- a slash[singular] (British English, slang) an act of urinating
- He's just nipped out to have a slash.
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th cent.
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