Slashing

noun
1.
a slash.
adjective
2.
sweeping; cutting.
3.
violent; severe:
a slashing wind.
4.
dashing; impetuous.
5.
vivid; flashing; brilliant.
6.
Informal. very large or fine; splendid:
a slashing fortune.
verb (used with object)
1.
to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
2.
to lash; whip.
3.
to cut, reduce, or alter:
The editors slashed the story to half its length.
4.
to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
5.
to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
verb (used without object)
6.
to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one’s way by cutting.
7.
to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
noun
8.
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
9.
a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
10.
a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:
a drastic slash of prices.
11.
a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
12.

a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule:
you and/or your dependents.
a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule:
She got 3/4 of the answers correct. “Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)

Compare forward slash, backslash.
13.

an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
the debris itself.

14.
Slang. slash fiction.
adjective
1.
aggressively or harshly critical (esp in the phrase slashing attack)
verb (transitive)
1.
to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
2.
to lash with a whip
3.
to make large gashes in: to slash tyres
4.
to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
5.
(mainly US) to criticize harshly
6.
to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
7.
to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
noun
8.
a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
9.
a cut or rent made by such a stroke
10.
a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
11.
(US & Canadian)

littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
an area so littered

12.
Also called diagonal, forward slash, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule. a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates (18/7/80), alternative words (and/or), numerator from denominator in fractions (55/103), etc
13.
(Brit, slang) the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)
14.
a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women