Slash

A slash of his blade just missed my ear.

He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.

After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.

He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.

We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

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).

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.

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.

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.”

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.

Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.

That bus shelter smells of slash.

If you can slash in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.

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.

Thence . . . to two small pines by a Slash or Sunken ground. . . . Thence . . . to two white oaks by a slash in lowground.

Beginning at the North side of a Slash incomposeing Long …

80 acres in Amelia Co., in the fork betw Persimmon Slash and the Gulley[.]

[…] 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.]