What is the meaning of Slash?

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

  1. A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

    A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

    A wild swinging strike of the bat.

    A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

    Any similar wide striking motion.

    A sharp reduction.

    A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

    1. A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

      A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

      A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

      Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

      1. A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
      2. A clearing in a forest, those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
      3. The slash mark: the punctuation mark/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash\⟩.
      4. Female genitalia.

      A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.

      A clearing in a forest, those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

      The slash mark: the punctuation mark/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash\⟩.

      Female genitalia.

      The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

      Slash fiction.

      To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

      1. To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

        To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

        To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

        To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

        To reduce sharply.

        To create slashes in a garment.

        To criticize cuttingly.

        To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

        1. To swing wildly at the ball.

        To swing wildly at the ball.

        To move quickly and violently.

        To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

        To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

        To write slash fiction.

        Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

        Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

        Used to list alternatives.

        A drink of something; a draft.

        A piss: an act of urination.

        Urine.

        To piss, to urinate.

        A swampy area; a swamp.

        A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

        To work in wet conditions.

        Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

        slash (sign)

        slash

        Source: wiktionary.org