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slash
Universal Words
verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 to make a long cut with a sharp object, especially in a violent way:
Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. * She tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists. * We had to slash our way through the undergrowth with sticks.
2 [oftenpassive] (often used in newspapers) to reduce sth by a large amount:
to slash costs / prices / fares * The workforce has been slashed by half.
PHRASALVERBS
slash at sb/sth (with sth) to attack sb violently with a knife, etc.
noun
1 [C] a sharp movement made with a knife, etc. in order to cut sb/sth
2 [C] a long narrow wound or cut:
a slash across his right cheek * (figurative) Her mouth was a slash of red lipstick.
3 [C] (BrE also oblique) the symbol (/) used to show ALTERNATIVES, as in lunch and/or dinner and 4/5 people and to write FRACTIONS, as in 3/4
seealsoBACKSLASH
4 (a slash) [sing.] (BrE, slang) an act of URINATING:
He's just nipped out to have a slash.