cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword

for what felt like hours we climbed behind the trackers slashing the undergrowth ahead

a tyre was slashed on my car

the man slashed at him with a sword

lash, whip, or thrash

slash him with bridle-reins and dog-whips!

a wide, sweeping stroke made with a knife or sword

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

sentence breaks are highlighted by slashes

an act of urinating

Gary went upstairs for a slash

debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees

the mountainsides were strewn with slash

used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature

a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant

a model slash actress

the most insane-slash-brilliant manoeuvre in the show's history

a tract of swampy ground, especially in a coastal region