Definitions

n. 1
A slashing action or motion: A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
A slash of his blade just missed my ear.
n. 2
A slashing action or motion: 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.
v. 1
To cut or attempt to cut To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.
v. 2
To cut or attempt to cut To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

Related words

Word family: slashfic slasher
Phrases: slash fiction forward slash backward slash dot dot slash front slash slash bunt slash dupe slash mark
Is a kind of: fraction bar
Other spellings: slatch

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: cut¹, bar¹
4 letters: whip¹, slam¹, cunt¹, toss¹, slit¹, lash¹, gash¹, maul¹, welt¹, flog¹, yerk
5 letters: crack¹, slice¹, strap¹, whack¹, slant¹, slish
6 letters: stroke¹, stripe¹, virgil², thrash¹, lather², hyphen², thresh¹
7 letters: oblique², scourge¹, solidus, trounce¹, lambast, virgule²
8 letters: diagonal⁴, incision³, convulse, lamblast
9 letters: castigate³, carbonado, jactitate
10 letters: flagellate³, separatrix
13 letters: strikethrough

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (virgil² = 2 syllables).