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SLASHES
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SLASHES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.
SLASHES root SLASH-es
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noun
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A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
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A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- 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.
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figurativelyA sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.
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A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.
- A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- CanadaUSA clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- oftenproscribedAny similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- broadlyidiomaticThe conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- slangvulgarThe vulva.
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CanadaUSThe loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.
- obsoleteA wet or swampy place overgrown with bushes
- slangSlash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
- obsoleterareA drink of something; a draft.
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UKslangvulgarA piss: an act of urination.
- Where's the gents? I need to take a slash.
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UKrareslangvulgarPiss; urine.
- That bus shelter smells of slash.
- EasternUSA swampy area; a swamp.
- EasternUSuncommonA slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- ScotlandA large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- UKalternativeAlternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
verb
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To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.
- She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
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figurativelyTo reduce sharply.
- All prices slashed!
- Competition forced them to slash prices.
- Profits are only up right now because they slashed overhead, but employee morale and product quality have collapsed too.
- To create slashes in a garment.
- figurativelyTo criticize cuttingly.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly
- To swing wildly at the ball.
- To move quickly and violently.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
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CanadaUSTo clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.
- intransitiveslangTo write slash fiction.
- UKintransitiveslangTo piss, to urinate.
- ScotlandintransitiveTo work in wet conditions.
adverb
- Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
conjunction
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CanadaUSUsed to connect two or more identities in a list.
- Saul Hudson is a famous musician/songwriter.
- CanadaUSUsed to list alternatives.