1
as in to slit
to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)
the tire appears to have been deliberately slashed
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2
as in to hide
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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Recent Examples of slash
Isabel Debre, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
Five years ago, Mamdani argued that the New York Police Department was essentially evil and should have its budget deeply slashed.
—Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026
This stands in contrast to the Web3-slash-NFT fashion-tech boom, which analysts say was a pure marketing play.
—Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2026
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Verb
The old formula not only fails to reflect how much Argentine households spend on present-day staples like Netflix subscriptions and iPhones, experts say, but also underrepresents the costs of public services like health care and electricity that have skyrocketed as Milei slashes subsidies.
—Isabel Debre, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2026
Five years ago, Mamdani argued that the New York Police Department was essentially evil and should have its budget deeply slashed.
—Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
Family is at the heart of a new coffee-shop-slash-music-space in a Citrus Heights strip mall.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Jan. 2026
This stands in contrast to the Web3-slash-NFT fashion-tech boom, which analysts say was a pure marketing play.
—Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2026
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Verb
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Always be willing to make a friend and slit their throat.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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In their final meeting, Spire took his former teammate for help after McCarthy slit his wrist.—
Graham Womack
Updated January 15,
Sacbee.com,
16 Jan. 2026
Verb
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That’s why scrolling by date and scrubbing through videos still works — search hides uncertainty, scrolling shows everything.—
Ken Colburn,
AZCentral.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Days after federal agents arrested the Ecuadorian mother hiding under a trailer on a snowy Minneapolis street, White House border czar Tom Homan said 700 federal law enforcement personnel will be withdrawn from the state.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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Van Der Beek later revealed that the tears weren’t scripted.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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With help from her nurse, Lorraine, Jeanne sat up, and wiped tears from her eyes.—
Allegra Goodman,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Using single-cell RNA data from four additional mouse brains — including ones from male or female mice, and ones sliced from left to right or front to back — CellTransformer produced similar maps.—
Amber Dance,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Feb. 2026
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And then there's Reinhardt's sinister robot sidekick Maximilian, a silent, malevolent presence who has no qualms about slicing up humans with his Swiss Army Knife-esque collection of torture devices.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The wind and waves whipped around us.—
Richard Greenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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According to initial police reports, the man sitting in the driver’s seat was pistol whipped and robbed of his wallet that contained cash and other personal items.—
Harry Harris,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Of the 605 sites where a multiagency state and federal task force ripped out illicit cannabis plants, roughly 9% were on public lands — up from an average of 3% to 4%.—
Rachel Becker,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026
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The footage also shows the person holding a flashlight in their mouth and trying to cover the camera with a gloved hand and part of a plant ripped from the yard.—
Hallie Golden,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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More recently, the mayor spoke out against the county’s plan to cut $200 million in homeless services.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Local reports said Ukrainian missiles hit a power plant and an electrical substation, cutting power to parts of the city.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Feb. 2026
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The day Hanceville’s police department was eliminated, a switch was flicked in a dispatch center at the county sheriff’s office in Cullman.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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As a director, his credits include A Family Man starring Gerard Butler, as well as the Liam Neeson flicks Honest Thief and Blacklight.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Slash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slash. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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