Slashy
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
"Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one."
- 2 resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
"It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name,"
- 3 wet, having wet ground, slushy
"Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships"
- 4 making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
"Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus."
- 5 darting, running in a zigzag motion
""Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them...""
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- 6 of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
"In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing."
- 7 slushy, very romantic
- 8 Characteristic of or related to slash fiction. slang
"It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch."
Example
More examples"Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one."
Etymology
From slash + -y.
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