slash

CEFRB2

/slaʃ/

verb · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

01
verb
To cut with a sharp weapon; a long cut or mark.
02
noun
Extra detail
A slashing action or motion:

Examples

Use a forward slash in the URL, not a backward slash.
Did you slash Tom's tires?

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/slæʃ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
A mark made by slashing:

More examples

In context

A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
I'll slash your tires!

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The angry man used a knife to blank the tires of the parked car.

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Citations

The word in print, with each source given in full.

We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.
1895, Henry Van Dyke, Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.
1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation, page 240
Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
2013, Katherine Arcement, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 5
Having read slash for other fandoms (mainly X-Files and Sentinel), I can say the whole gay issue gets dealt with more often in that slash than it does in Trek slash. That's not to say that all the slashers who slash in a "modern-era" show deal with AIDS, homophobia and other gay issues, but some of them do.
1997 December 17, ASCEM, quoting Ruth Gifford, “Re: An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet)
What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around.
2001, Drake Sather, Ben Stiller, John Hamburg, Zoolander, spoken by Fabio Lanzoni

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Origin

verb

Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin, or possibly from Old French esclachier (“to break in pieces”), a variant of esclater, which is likely a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *slaitan (“to slit, tear”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.