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{{also|stash}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/slaʃ/|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/slæʃ/|a=US}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-slash.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{hyphenation|en|slash}}
* {{rhymes|en|æʃ|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from {{der|en|fr|esclachier||to [[break]]}}. Used in the {{w|Wycliffe Bible}} as ''slascht'' (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨[[/]]⟩. ''See also'' '''{{l|en|slash fiction}}'''.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}
[[File:Deforestation Olkhon.JPG|thumb|right|Sense 4]]

# A [[#Verb|slash]]ing [[action]] or [[motion]]:
## A [[swift]], [[broad]] [[cut]]ting [[stroke]], especially one made with an [[edged]] [[weapon]] or [[whip]].
##: {{ux|en|A '''slash''' of his blade just missed my ear.}}
## {{lb|en|sports}} A [[wide]] [[strike|striking]] motion made with an [[implement]] such as a [[cricket bat]], [[hockey stick]], or [[lacrosse stick]].
##: {{ux|en|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.}}
## {{lb|en|figuratively}} A [[sharp]] [[reduction]] in [[resource]]s [[allot]]ted.
##: {{ux|en|After the war ended, the army saw a 50% '''slash''' in their operating budget.}}
# A [[mark]] made by [[#Verb|slash]]ing:
## A [[deep]] [[cut]] or [[laceration]], as made by an [[edged]] [[weapon]] or [[whip]].
##: {{ux|en|He was bleeding from a '''slash''' across his cheek.}}
## {{lb|en|botany}} A [[deep]] [[taper]]-[[pointed]] [[incision]] in a [[plant]].
# Something resembling such a mark:
## {{lb|en|fashion}} A [[slit]] in an [[outer]] [[garment]], usually [[expose|exposing]] a [[lining]] or [[inner]] garment of a [[contrast]]ing [[color]] or [[design]]. {{anchor|Clearing}}
## {{lb|en|US|&|Canada}} A [[clearing]] in a [[forest]], ''particularly'' one made by [[logging]], [[fire]], or other [[violent]] [[action]].
##* {{quote-text|en|year=1895|author=w:Henry Van Dyke|title=Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
|passage=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.}}
## {{lb|en|originally|_|US|typography}} The [[slash mark]]: the [[punctuation mark]] ⟨'''[[/]]'''⟩.
##* {{quote-book|en|year=1965|author=Dmitri A. Borgmann|title=Language on Vacation|page=240
|passage=Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like {{smallcaps|[[slant]]}}, {{smallcaps|[[slant line]]}}, {{smallcaps|[[slash]]}}, and {{smallcaps|[[slash mark]]}}. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as {{smallcaps|[[diagonal]]}} and {{smallcaps|[[diagonal mark]]}}, and other sources provide the designation {{smallcaps|[[oblique]]}}.}}
### {{lb|en|often|_|proscribed}} Any similar typographical mark, such as the [[backslash]] ⟨[[\]]⟩.
## {{lb|en|vulgar|slang}} The [[vulva]].
# {{lb|en|US|&|Canada}} The [[loose]] [[woody]] [[debris]] [[remain]]ing from a [[#Clearing|slash]]; the [[trimming]]s [[leave|left]] while [[prepare|preparing]] [[felled]] [[tree]]s for [[removal]].
#: {{ux|en|'''Slash''' generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.}}
# {{lb|en|fandom slang}} {{cap|slash fiction}}; [[fan fiction]] [[focus]]ed on [[homoerotic]] [[pairing]] of [[fictional]] [[character]]s.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2013|author=Katherine Arcement|title=Diary|journal=London Review of Books|volume=35|issue=5
|passage=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).}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|deep cut}} {{l|en|gash}}
* {{sense|typographic mark}} {{l|en|slash mark}}; {{l|en|solidus}} {{qualifier|formal name}}; {{l|en|stroke}} {{qualifier|chiefly UK}}; {{l|en|forward slash}}, {{l|en|forward stroke}}, {{l|en|foreslash}}, {{l|en|frontslash}}, {{l|en|front slash}} {{qualifier|sometimes proscribed}}; {{l|en|virgule}} {{qualifier|marking line breaks}}; {{l|en|shilling mark}} {{qualifier|UK|historical currency sign}}; {{l|en|slant}}s, {{l|en|slant line}}s {{qualifier|marking pronunciations}}; {{l|en|separatrix}} {{qualifier|proofreading mark}}; {{l|en|scratch comma}} {{qualifier|former use as a form of comma}}; {{l|en|oblique}}, {{l|en|oblique mark}}, {{l|en|oblique stroke}}, {{l|en|oblique dash}} {{qualifier|chiefly UK|dated}}; {{l|en|diagonal}}, {{l|en|diagonal mark}} {{qualifier|dated}}; {{l|en|virgula}} {{qualifier|obsolete}}; {{l|en|virgil}} {{qualifier|UK|obsolete}}; {{l|en|whack}} {{qualifier|improper}}; {{l|en|bar}} {{qualifier|improper|obsolete}}
* {{sense|vulgar term for female genitalia}} ''See'' '''{{l|en|cunt}}'''

=====Antonyms=====
* {{l|en|backslash}}

=====Hypernyms=====
* {{sense|typographic mark}} {{l|en|fraction bar}} {{qualifier|in fractions}}; {{l|en|division sign}} {{qualifier|in division}}

=====Hyponyms=====
* {{l|en|division slash}}
* {{l|en|fraction slash}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en|dot dot slash
|backslash
|foreslash
|frontslash|non-slash
|slashable
|slash pocket
|slashy
|slashfic
|femslash
|backward slash|hack-and-slash|pre-slash|slash bunt|slash chord|slash dupe|slash hook|slash line|slash pine|slash print|slash-and-burn|slash-mark
|slash area
|slash fiction
|slash fire
|slash mark
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|swift cut with a blade}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разси́чане|n}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|tall|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|斬擊|tr=zhǎnjī}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|řez|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|hug|n}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|sivallus}}
* French: {{t+|fr|entaille|f}}, {{t+|fr|taillade|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Hieb|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|fendente|m}}, {{t+|it|sfregio|m}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|斬撃|tr=ざんげき, zangeki}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|참격(斬擊)}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|rėžis|m}}, {{t|lt|rėžimas|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|исеку́вање|n}}, {{t|mk|расеку́вање|n}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|whakangaeke}}, {{t|mi|hahae}}, {{t|mi|hōripiripi}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|siekać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|posiekać|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|talho|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|hugg|n}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ฟัน|tr=fan}}, {{t+|th|ตัด|tr=dtàt}}, {{t+|th|เฉือน|tr=chʉ̌ʉan}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|ice hockey, lacrosse: quick and hard lateral strike with a player's stick}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|seknutí|n}}, {{t+|cs|sekera|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|huitominen}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|siekanie}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|typography: / symbol}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|[[خَطّ]] [[مَائِل]]|m}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|кәсер}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|[[касы|каса́я]] [[ры́ска]]|f}}, {{t|be|слэш|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|наклоне́на черта́|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|barra|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|斜線號}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|lomítko|n}}
* Danish: {{t|da|skråstreg|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|schuine streep|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|oblikvo}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|vinoviiva}}, {{t+|fi|kauttaviiva}} {{qualifier|colloquial}}, {{t+|fi|kautta}} {{qualifier|when reading out the symbol}}
* French: {{t+|fr|barre oblique|f}}, {{t+|fr|barre|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Bruchstrich|m}}, {{t+|de|Schrägstrich|m}}
* Greek: {{t|el|δεξιότροπη κάθετος}}, {{t+|el|κάθετος|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|לוֹכְסָן|m|tr=lokhsán}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|perjel}}, {{t|hu|ferde vonal}}, {{t+|hu|törtvonal}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|skástrik|n}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|fleasc|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|barra|f}}, {{t|it|sbarretta obliqua|f}}, {{t|it|sbarretta|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|スラッシュ|tr=surasshu}}, {{t+|ja|斜線|tr=しゃせん, shasen}}, {{t|ja|スラント|tr=suranto}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|빗금}}, {{t|ko|슬래시}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ко́са цр́та|f}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|rītaha}}, {{t|mi|tohu rītaha}}, {{t|mi|hahae}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|slache|f}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}, {{t|nrf|slache en avant|f}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|skråstrek|m}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|ukośnik|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|barra|f}}, {{t|pt|barra oblíqua|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|bară|f}}, {{t|ro|slash|n}}, {{t|ro|bară oblică|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|слеш|m|tr=slɛš}}, {{t+|ru|слэш|m}}, {{t|ru|[[косой|коса́я]] [[черта́]]|f}}, {{t+|ru|коса́я|f}}, {{t+|ru|дробь|f}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|коса црта|f}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|kosa crta|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|lomka|f}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|poševnica|f}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|barra oblicua|f}}, {{t+|es|barra|f}}, {{t|es|slash|m}}, {{t+|es|diagonal|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|alama ya mkwaju}}, {{t+|sw|mkwaju}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|snedstreck|n}}, {{t+|sv|streck|n}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ทับ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|bölü}}, {{t+|tr|taksim}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|[[косий|коса́]] [[ри́ска]]|f}}, {{t|uk|слеш|m}}
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|dấu gạch chéo}}, {{t|vi|dấu xuyệt chéo}}, {{t|vi|dấu xẹt chéo}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|slash fiction}}

{{trans-top|vulgar slang: female genitalia}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пу́тка|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|viiva}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|fessa|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|пи́чка|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* French: {{t+check|fr|entaille|f}} (3)
* Japanese: {{t-check|ja|斬撃|tr=ざんげき, zangeki}}
* Norman: {{t-check|nrf|slache|f}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}
{{trans-bottom}}

=====See also=====
{{list:punctuation/en}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# To [[cut]] or [[attempt]] to [[cut]], ''[[particularly]]'':
## To [[cut]] with a [[swift]] [[broad]] [[stroke]] of an [[edge]]d [[weapon]].
##: {{ux|en|They '''slashed''' at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.}}
##: {{ux|en|She hacked and '''slashed''' her way across the jungle.}}
## To [[produce]] a [[similar]] [[wound]] with a [[savage]] [[strike]] of a [[whip]].
## {{lb|en|ice hockey}} To [[strike]] [[swiftly]] and [[laterally]] with a [[hockey stick]], [[usually]] across [[another]] [[player]]'s [[arm]]s or [[leg]]s.
## {{lb|en|figuratively}} To [[reduce]] [[sharply]].
##: {{ux|en|Competition forced them to '''slash''' prices.}}
##: {{ux|en|Profits are only up right now because they '''slashed''' [[overhead]], but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.}}
## {{lb|en|fashion}} To [[create]] [[#Etymology 1|slash]]es in a [[garment]].
## {{lb|en|figuratively}} To [[criticize]] [[cutting]]ly.
# To [[strike]] [[violent]]ly and [[random]]ly, ''[[particularly]]'':
## {{lb|en|cricket}} To [[swing]] [[wildly]] at the [[ball]].
# To [[move]] [[quick]]ly and [[violent]]ly.
# To [[crack]] a [[whip]] with a [[#Verb|slash]]ing [[motion]].
# {{lb|en|US|Canada}} To [[clear]] [[land]], {{lb|en|particularly|forestry}} with [[violent]] [[action]] [[such as]] [[logging]] or [[brushfire]]s or {{lb|en|agriculture|uncommon}} through [[grazing]].
#: {{ux|en|The province's traditional [[slash and burn|'''slash'''-and-burn]] agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|fandom slang}} To write [[slash fiction]].
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=1997-12-17|author=ASCEM|quotee=Ruth Gifford|title=Re: An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction|newsgroup=alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated|url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/c/0GrPsB92EW4/m/HC-DtQIANGQJ|passage=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.}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|to strike with a whip}} {{l|en|lash}}, {{l|en|scourge}}, {{l|en|thrash}}
* {{sense|to strike a whip}} {{l|en|crack}}

=====Coordinate terms=====
* {{sense|slash fiction}} {{l|en|ship}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en|
|femslasher
|slasher
|slash down
|slash off
|slash out
|slash pile
|slash up
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|to make a broad cut with an edged weapon}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|разсичам}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|砍|tr=kǎn}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|říznout}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|hakken}}, {{t+|nl|houwen}}, {{t+|nl|snijden}}, {{t+|nl|klieven}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|viiltää}}, {{t|fi|sivaltaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|entailler}}, {{t+|fr|taillader}}, {{t+|fr|sabrer}}, {{t+|fr|trancher}}
* German: {{t+|de|aufschlitzen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|hasít}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|tagliare}}, {{t+|it|sfregiare}}, {{t+|it|fendere}}, {{t+|it|falciare}}, {{t+|it|mietere}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|切り裂く|tr=きりさく, kirisaku}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|rėžti}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|и́сече|pf}}, {{t|mk|се́че|impf}}, {{t|mk|ра́сече|pf}}, {{t|mk|расе́кува|impf}}
* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᠰᠠᠴᡳᠮᠪᡳ}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|hae}}, {{t|mi|hahae}}, {{t|mi|hōripiripi}}, {{t|mi|tapahi}} {{qualifier|of grasses}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|sâbrer}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}, {{t|nrf|slachi}} {{qualifier|Jersey}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|полосова́ть}}, {{t+|ru|руби́ть}}, {{t+|ru|рассека́ть}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|hugga}}, {{t+|sv|kapa}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Adverb====
{{en-adv|-}}

# {{non-gloss|Used to note the sound or action of a slash.}}

====Conjunction====
{{en-con}}

# {{lb|en|North America}} {{non-gloss|Used to connect two or more identities in a list.}}
#: {{ux|en|{{w|Saul Hudson}} is a famous musician'''/'''songwriter.}}
#* {{quote-av|en|year=2001|writers=Drake Sather; Ben Stiller; John Hamburg|role=w:Fabio Lanzoni|title=w:Zoolander|passage=What this, the Slashie, means is that you consider me the best actor '''slash''' model and not the other way around.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/brazil-lula-fans-relish-prospect-of-defeat-for-bolsonaro|title=‘A day of hope’: Lula fans eager to see Bolsonaro defeated|date=2022-10-02|author=Tom Phillips|work=The Guardian|passage=“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.}}
# {{lb|en|North America}} {{non-gloss|Used to list alternatives.}}
#: ''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.''

=====Usage notes=====
Typically written with the slash mark ⟨[[/]]⟩ and only spoken or transcribed as the word "slash". Often omitted from speech and only marked as a brief pause between the alternatives. Exclusively omitted in common constructions such as {{m|en|and/or}}, {{m|en|either/or}}, and {{m|en|washer}}/{{m|en|dryer}}.

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|exclusive or}} {{l|en|or}}
* {{sense|inclusive or}} {{l|en|and}}, {{l|en|or}}, {{l|en|and/or}}
* {{sense|UK}} {{l|en|stroke}}

====Further reading====
* {{pedia}}

===Etymology 2===
{{unc|en}}. Compare {{cog|sco|slash||[[large]] [[splash]]}}, possibly from {{cog|fro|esclache}}. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete|rare}} A [[drink]] of [[something]]; a [[draft]].
# {{lb|en|UK|slang|vulgar}} A [[piss]]: an [[act]] of [[urination]].
#: {{ux|en|Where's the [[gents]]? I need to take a '''slash'''.}}
# {{lb|en|UK|slang|vulgar|rare}} {{cap|piss}}; [[urine]].
#: {{ux|en|That bus shelter smells of '''slash'''.}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|intransitive|UK|slang}} To [[piss]], to [[urinate]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1973|author=Martin Amis|title=The Rachel Papers,|page=189
|passage=If you can '''slash''' in my bed (I thought) don't tell me you can't suck my cock.}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|slang: an act of urination}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|мо́ча|impf}}, {{t|mk|и́змоча|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|mijada|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|пи́сать}}, {{t|ru|сходи́ть по-ма́ленькому}} {{qualifier|slang}}, {{t|ru|спра́вить ма́лую нужду́}} {{qualifier|slang}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 3===
{{unc|en}}. Compare British dialectal {{m|en|slashy||[[wet]] and [[dirty]], [[miry]]}} and {{m+|sco|slash||act of walking forcefully through water or mud}} and {{m|sco|slatch||wet and muddy place, mire}}.<!--Chambers 1908 mentions Swedish "slaska", dabble; "slask", wet.--> Perhaps related to {{m+|sv|slask||slush}}.

Compare also {{m|en|slash||clearing in a forest}}: in many cases it is difficult to tell whether that sense or this one is meant. (Also compare {{m|en|flash||a [[marsh]]; a [[pool]] of [[water]]}}.)

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|eastern|_|US}} A [[swampy]] [[area]]; a [[swamp]].
#* '''1687''', Colonial Virginia ''Patents 7'', page 590, quoted in '''1940''', George Davis McJimsey, ''Topographic Terms in Virginia'', page 120: 
#*: On the North side of one of ye Windings of a great '''Slash''' or Swamp called ye Roundabout. 
#* '''1694''', Edmond Andros, Isabella Mackland, colonial Virginia record (granting land to Robert Beverly), quoted in '''1988''', Beverley Fleet, ''Virginia Colonial Abstracts'', page 318: 
#*: 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 [...] 
#* '''1694''' October 26, colonial Virginia record (regarding Capt. Richard Halle of the County of Essex)m quoted in '''1988''', Beverley Fleet, ''Virginia Colonial Abstracts'', page 406: 
#*: 720 acres "lying in the Forrest between Rappahannock and Mattapony river". Adjoins Goldman's land, the line of Robins by and {{SIC}} old Indian path in a '''slash''', the land of Majr Robert Beverley, deceased.
#* '''1714''', Colonial Virginia ''Patents 10'', pages 153, 168, quoted in '''1940''', George Davis McJimsey, ''Topographic Terms in Virginia'', page 121:
#*: Thence . . . to two small pines by a '''Slash''' or Sunken ground. . . . Thence . . . to two white oaks by a '''slash''' in lowground. 
#* '''1715''', Colonial Virginia ''Patents 10'', 247, quoted in '''1940''', George Davis McJimsey, ''Topographic Terms in Virginia'', page 121:
#*: Beginning at the North side of a '''Slash''' incomposeing Long [...] 
#* '''1747''' September, John Garrott, Virginia deed (of Amelia County, Deed Book 2, page 542) quoted in '''1988''', Beverley Fleet, ''Virginia Colonial Abstracts'', page 459: 
#*: 80 acres in Amelia Co., in the fork betw Persimmon '''Slash''' and the Gulley[.]
# {{lb|en|eastern|_|US|uncommon}} A [[slash pine]], which grows in such (swampy) areas.
#* '''1932''', Mr. Yon, statement regarding a waterway from Choctawhatchee Bay to West Bay, Florida, printed in the ''Hearings'' of the United States House Committee on Rivers and Harbors'' (1932), page 8:
#*: {{...}} second growth long-leaf yellow '''slash'''. And also we have a short-leaf pine.
#* ['''1935''', ''Miscellaneous Publication'', issue 209, page 15:
#*: Slash pine (Pinus caribaea Morelet) / Slash pine is also known as yellow slash, swamp pine, hill slash, and Cuban pine.]
# {{lb|en|Scotland}} A large quantity of [[watery]] [[food]] such as [[broth]].

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|Scotland|intransitive}} To [[work]] in wet conditions.

===Etymology 4===
''See'' '''{{l|en|slatch}}'''

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|UK}} {{alternative form of|en|slatch|nodot=1}}: a [[deep]] [[trough]] of [[finely]]-[[fractured]] [[culm]] or a [[circular]] or [[elliptical]] [[pocket]] of [[coal]].

===References===
* ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "slash, ''v.¹'' & ''v.''²" & "slash, ''n.¹'', ''n.²'', ''n.³'', & ''n.⁴''". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1911.

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ahlss|LSSAH}}

{{cln|en|coordinating conjunctions}}
{{C|en|Diacritical marks|Fan fiction|Foods|Injuries|Landforms|Punctuation marks|Shipping (fandom)}}

==Romanian==

===Etymology===
{{ubor|ro|en|slash}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ro|/sleʃ/}}

===Noun===
{{ro-noun|n|slash-uri}}

# {{l|en|slash}} {{gl|sign}}

====Declension====
{{ro-noun-n|pl=slash-uri}}

==Spanish==

===Pronunciation===
{{es-pr|eslash|hyph=+}}

===Noun===
{{es-noun|m|#|pl2=slashes}}

# {{lb|es|punctuation}} {{l|en|slash}}

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