Definition of: slash

(slash) v.t.
1. To cut by striking violently and without attempt at accuracy; cut with long sweeping strokes; strike violently with or as with an edged instrument; slit; gash.
2. To strike with long sweeping blows of a whip; lash; scourge.
3. To make long gashes, cuts, or slits in; specifically, to slit, as a garment, so as to expose ornamental material or lining in or under the slits.
4. To criticize severely; censure harshly.
5. To cut down wastefully, as timber in a forest.
6. To reduce sharply, as salaries.
—v.i.
7. To make a long sweeping stroke or several such strokes with or as with something sharp; cut.
—noun
1. The act or result of slashing; a sweeping, random cut with a cutting weapon or whip; a slit or gash; specifically, an ornamental slit or cut in a garment showing some other material in or through the slit.
2. An opening or gap made in a forest.
3. The loose tops and branches of trees left in a forest after logging or a high wind.
4. A swampy thicket; low–lying boggy land: usually in the plural.
5. Printing A virgula. [? <OF esclachier break]
—slash′er noun