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1
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
- the tire appears to have been deliberately slashed
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2
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
- wildly slashing the ground with his club and never once hitting the golf ball he was aiming at
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“Slash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slash. Accessed 21 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of slash was in 1548
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