[slaʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword
(e.g: for what felt like hours we climbed behind the trackers slashing the undergrowth ahead)

- lash, whip, or thrash
(e.g: slash him with bridle-reins and dog-whips!)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th century

[slaʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a wide, sweeping stroke made with a knife or sword
(e.g: the man took a mighty slash at his head with a large sword)

- an oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g. and/or), in fractions (e.g. 3/4), in ratios (e.g. miles/day), or between separate elements of a text
(e.g: sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes)

- an act of urinating
(e.g: Gary went upstairs for a slash)

- debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees
(e.g: the mountainsides were strewn with slash)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th century

[slaʃ], (Conjunction)

Definitions:
- used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature
(e.g: a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant)


Phrases:

Origin:
from slash, as a verbal representation of the symbol
late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier ‘break in pieces’. The noun dates from the late 16th century

[slaʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a tract of swampy ground, especially in a coastal region


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century: of uncertain origin