slash

1. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:Examples: "They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers."; "She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle."

2. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

3. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

4. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:Examples: "Competition forced them to slash prices."; "Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too."figuratively

5. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

6. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:figuratively

1. (Canada, US) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.Examples: "Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter."; "What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor slash model and not the other way around."; "“It’s been a joke-slash-tragedy,” the restaurant host, 29, said of the president’s tumultuous far-right administration as she cast her vote against him in her country’s most important election in decades."CanadaUS

2. (Canada, US) Used to list alternatives.Examples: "Alternatives can be marked by the slash/stroke/solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line. Read: Alternatives can be marked by the slash-slash-stroke-slash-solidus punctuation mark, a tall, right-slanting oblique line."Synonyms: or, and, or, and/orCanadaUS

1. (obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.obsoleterare

2. (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.Examples: "Where's the gents? I need to take a slash."UKslangvulgar

3. (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.Examples: "That bus shelter smells of slash."UKrareslangvulgar

1. (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.Examples: "If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock."UKintransitiveslang

1. (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.Examples: "On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great Slash or Swamp called ye Roundabout."; "three acres one Rood and Six pole of Land … Extending Northward along the Ditch thirty six poles and two fifths of a pole to a slash called Pitch and Tar Slash or Swamp[,] then along that Slash till it come to the Main Cart road westward …"; "720 acres "lying in the Forrest between Rappahannock and Mattapony river". Adjoins Goldman's land, the line of Robins by and old Indian path in a slash, the land of Majr Robert Beverley, deceased."EasternUS

2. (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.Examples: "[…] second growth long-leaf yellow slash. And also we have a short-leaf pine."; "Slash pine (Pinus caribaea Morelet) / Slash pine is also known as yellow slash, swamp pine, hill slash, and Cuban pine.]"EasternUSuncommon

3. (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.Scotland