○ noun 1 PMW a quick movement that you make with a knife, sword etc in order to cut someone or something 2 ( also slash mark ) SLA a line (/) used in writing to separate words, numbers, or letters 3 CUT a long narrow cut in something → gash Cut several slashes across the top of the loaf before baking. Related topics: Weapons, Letters & punctuation slash slash 2 Religious extremists broke through police lines to slash at the pro-reform protesters with broken bottles and clubs. In the half-light I am awe-struck by the steel-grey slash through the dark landscape a few kilometres away. The leopard's claws slashed through soft flesh. BFreeman wants to slash at least $ 400 million from an annual budget of $ 2. He slashed at his opponent's head, wearing him down. Marlowe grabbed Frizer s dagger, slashing at him wildly about the head. She imagined that slash through herself. A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass. He slashed at Alexei, talons out, but Alexei had anticipated the move. As irrational as it sounds, many companies hire new workers and then turn around and slash their payrolls. 
Someone had slashed the tyres on Bayle's car. Sony has slashed the price of its new CD player, the D50. Congress has slashed the budget for programs to help poor families. American car manufacturers have started slashing prices in an effort to stimulate sales. Public spending has been slashed over the past two years. Rather than betray the others, Stockdale broke a window and slashed his wrists with a jagged shard of glass. Last December, he took a drugs overdose and in September slashed his wrists and groin with a smuggled razor blade. She slashed her wrists with a razor blade. British Airways have slashed fares by over 50%. 
His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.Come to our Summer Sale, where prices have been slashed by up to 75%.Mr Jackson said Cardow had been injured and later his face had been slashed by friends of the dead man.► see thesaurus at reduce 3 → slash your wrists → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus slash ► see thesaurus at cut 2 REDUCE to greatly reduce an amount, price etc – used especially in newspapers and advertising SYN cut The workforce has been slashed by 50%.
slash at/through The leopard’s claws slashed through the soft flesh.
○ verb 1 CUT to cut or try to cut something violently with a knife, sword etc Someone had slashed the tires. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English slash slash 1 / slæʃ /
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