Slash

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To crack or snap, as a whip.

II. Slash ·noun A long cut; a cut made at random.

III. Slash ·noun Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

IV. Slash ·vt To Lash; to ply the whip to.

V. Slash ·vt To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

VI. Slash ·noun A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

VII. Slash ·add. ·noun A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.

VIII. Slash ·vi To strike violently and at random, ·esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.