slash

v. cut with a sharp quick stroke, gash, wound; reduce, lower; make sharp quick strokes; strongly criticize; create a way by cutting

n. sharp quick stroke; cut, wound, gash; punctuation mark in the form of a diagonal line ( / ); reduction, decrease; small branches and other debris remaining after an area of forest has been cut

Slash can refer to:Slash (musician) (born Saul Hudson in 1965), Velvet Revolver guitarist and Guns N' Roses former guitarist.Kordell Stewart.Slash (punctuation), the "/" punctuation character also called a solidus.Slash chord, in popular music.Slash (fanzine), a punk rock fanzine founded in 1977.Slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction dealing with homosexual relationships or sexual encounters.Slash (logging), woody debris generated by timber harvestingSlash (wrestler), professional wrestler.Slash notation, a form of music notation.Slash Pine, a tree native to the southeast United States.Slash Records, a punk record label.Slash (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fictional universe.Slash (weblog system), the weblogging software which powers the Slashdot website.Slash and burn, an agricultural procedure.Slash'EM, a variant of the computer game NetHackFeynman slash notation, of quantum field theory.Slash rating, a US National Electrical Code circuit interrupt hardware qualifier.
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Noun
1. a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
(synonym) cut, gash, slice
(hypernym) wound, lesion
(derivation) gash
2. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
(hypernym) land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
3. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
(synonym) solidus, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
(hypernym) punctuation, punctuation mark
4. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
(synonym) gash
(hypernym) cut, cutting
(derivation) cut down
Verb
1. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
(synonym) cut down
(hypernym) cut
(derivation) gash
2. beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
(synonym) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, strap, trounce
(hypernym) beat, beat up, work over
(hyponym) flagellate, scourge
3. cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
(synonym) gash
(hypernym) cut
(derivation) cut, gash, slice
4. cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
(hypernym) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down
5. move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
(synonym) convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, toss, jactitate
(hypernym) shake, agitate
(hyponym) whip

n. slash, punctuation mark in the form of a diagonal line ( / )

(v. t.)
To lash; to ply the whip to.
  

(v. t.)
To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
  

(v. t.)
To crack or snap, as a whip.
  

(v. i.)
To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
  

(n.)
Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
  

(n.)
A long cut; a cut made at random.
  

(n.)
A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.