Foreslash vs. Slash — What's the Difference?

Synonym of slash⟨/⟩.

To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes

To make a gash or gashes in.

To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color

(Sports) To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

To criticize sharply

(Sports) To hit or propel (a ball, for instance) forcefully in a straight line.

To reduce or curtail drastically

To make forceful sweeping strokes with a sharp instrument.

To cut one's way with such strokes

To make drastic reductions in something

A forceful sweeping stroke that is made with a sharp instrument.

A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.

A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.

A diagonal mark ( / ) that is used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, to separate component parts of a URL, as in whitehouse.gov/kids/patriotism/, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole / Was a merry old soul. Also called virgule.

Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.

Often slashes Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees.

A genre of fanfic depicting romantic relationships between characters, usually of the same sex, that are not romantically connected in the original work or works upon which the fanfic is based.

As well as; and. Used as a representation of the virgule (as in restaurant/art gallery or actor/director), often styled with hyphens in print

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.

(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.

A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

Any similar wide striking motion.

(figuratively) A sharp reduction.

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.

(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment. Clearing

A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.

The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.

Female genitalia.

The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

(fandom slang) Slash fiction.

A drink of something; a draft.

A piss: an act of urination.

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

(UK) slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

To cut or attempt to cut, particularly:

To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

(ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

(figuratively) To reduce sharply.

(fashion) To create slashes in a garment.

(figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

(cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.

To move quickly and violently.

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

To write slash fiction.

To piss, to urinate.

To work in wet conditions.

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

(North America) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

(North America) Used to list alternatives.

To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.

To lash; to ply the whip to.

To crack or snap, as a whip.

To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.

A long cut; a cut made at random.

A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.

A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.

A wound made by cutting;

An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Beat severely with a whip or rod;

Cut open;

Cut drastically;

Move or stir about violently;