[slash] vb [origin unknown] vi (1548): to lash out, cut, or thrash about with or as if with an edged blade ~ vt 1: to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes
2: cane, lash
3: to cut slits in (as a garment) so as to reveal a color beneath
4: to criticize cuttingly
5: to reduce sharply: cut -- slash.er n
[2]slash n (1576) 1: the act of slashing; also: a long cut or stroke made by or as if by slashing
2: an ornamental slit in a garment 3 a: an open tract in a forest strewn with debris (as from logging) b: the debris in such a tract
4: diagonal 3--called also slash mark [3]slash n [origin unknown] (1652): a low swampy area often overgrown with brush