单词 | slash |
释义 | slash v. & n. --v   1. intr. make a sweeping or random cut or cuts with a knife, sword, whip, etc.   2. tr. make such a cut or cuts at.   3. tr. make a long narrow gash or gashes in.   4. tr. reduce (prices etc.) drastically.   5. tr. censure vigorously.   6. tr. make (one's way) by slashing.   7. tr. a lash (a person etc.) with a whip. b crack (a whip). --n   1. a a slashing cut or stroke. b a wound or slit made by this.   2. an oblique stroke; a solidus.   3. Brit. sl. an act of urinating.   4. US debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees. Phrases and idioms slash-and-burn (of cultivation) in which vegetation is cut down, allowed to dry, and then burned off before seeds are planted. Derivatives slasher n. Etymology: ME perh. f. OF esclachier break in pieces |
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