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slash

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1. slash - Noun

2. slash - Verb

3. slash - Adverb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey. Margot Kidder

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab. Charlie Sheen

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. Diana Gabaldon

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? Joseph Conrad

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at. Billy Unger

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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