Slash

/slaʃ/ · noun

Meaning

A slashing action or motion:.

Definitions by Sense

1. A slashing action or motion:
2. A mark made by slashing:
3. Something resembling such a mark:
4. (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
5. (obsolete) A wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
6. (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
7. To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:
8. To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

Example Sentences

Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.

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).

The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.

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.

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.

“Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”

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• slashes
• slashing
• slashed

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