slash

slash

slang A type of fan fiction that explores a sexual or romantic relationship between two characters (usually male) that are not romantically involved in the source material. The name comes from the slash (/) that typically separates the two characters' names in the story's title or description. Dean and Castiel are my favorite characters on "Supernatural," so yeah, I've read Destiel slash.

slash at (someone or something)

1. To swing a cutting weapon in a forceful thrusting or sweeping stroke in the direction of someone. I picked up the knife and slashed at the would-be mugger to chase him away.
2. To cut something repeatedly with forceful thrusting or sweeping strokes. I kept slashing at the rope with my pocket knife, trying desperately to free my foot from the submerged boat.
See also: slash

slash fic

A type of fan fiction that explores a sexual or romantic relationship between two characters (usually male) that are not romantically involved in the source material. The name comes from the slash (/) that typically separates the two characters' names in the story's title or description. Dean and Castiel are my favorite characters on "Supernatural," so yeah, I've read Destiel slash fic.
See also: slash

slash-and-burn

1. Relating to an agricultural tactic in which forest or other vegetation cut down to the ground and burned, the land planted and cultivated with crops for a few years, then abandoned to allow the forest grow back. The slash-and-burn practice has become ever more frequent in this region, but with less and less areas being allowed to regrow the forests each year, there are concerns that the damage may become irreparable.
2. By extension, extremely and drastically destructive. Several of the country's biggest corporations have had to undergo slash-and-burn dismantlings of many of their offices in efforts to salvage their businesses.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

slash and burn

 
1. Lit. of a farming technique where vegetation is cut down and burned before crops are planted. (Hyphenated before nominals.) The small farmers' slash-and-burn technique destroyed thousands of acres of forest.
2. Fig. of a crude and brash way of doing something. (Hyphenated before nominals.) The new manager's method was strictly slash and burn. He looks decisive to his boss and merciless to the people he fires.
See also: and, burn, slash

slash (out) at someone

to thrust out at someone with a knife or something similar, with the intent of cutting. The attacker slashed out at his victim and then ran away. Max slashed at the cop with a pocketknife.
See also: slash
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

slash

n. a drink of liquor. Just one slash, and I have to be going.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • slash fic
  • arm candy
  • candy
  • talking
  • ship name
  • sugar daddy
  • a sugar daddy
  • there are plenty more where he/she/they came from
  • make goo-goo eyes at (someone)
  • love's young dream
References in periodicals archive
Slash is never off the road and he still loves touring.
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To complete the pattern for a slash pocket, use a ruler to draw a slash on the pocket-lining pattern.
Pants perfection: part two: pockets
The Ask Uncle Slash advice column will begin running June 2013 on howdoidate.com.
World's First Agony Uncle Joins Dating Advice Website as Advice Columnist
Slash has spent the best part of the last decade breaking free from the large spectre cast by Guns 'n' Roses and with his latest and strongest release yet, Apocalyptic Love, he may finally have succeeded.
Gig Review
Would you believe it that they dragged me on a Disney cruise?" Slash told UK newspaper The Telegraph.
Guns N' Roses guitairist Slash addicted to Disney
Lauded by Time Magazine as the greatest living guitar player, Slash electrified his audience with an outstanding evening of riffs.
Byblos crowd gets itself Slashed
Slash became a household name with Guns N' Roses, twice almost killing himself in the process on a diet of drugs, drink and groupies.
OH, SWEET HILD O'MINE; Guitar hero Slash has just picked up the rock album of the year award. PAUL COLE gets the lowdown on matters past, present and future
We were unable to find published reports on the production of value-added engineered wood products from slash wood with a diameter of less than 76 mm (3 in.).
Preliminary study on flakeboard panels made from aspen slash wood
Recently CSC slashed domestic wholesale prices for the most popular hot-rolled steel coils to be shipped in September by US$55 to between US$650 and US$670 per metric ton.
China steel in Taiwan temporarily delays output reduction
Getting stuff done was the primary motivation behind Slash s self-titled solo debut, due April 6 in the United States on the artist s own Dik Hayd Records via EMI Label Services.
Slash recruits vocalist A-team for solo project
The CBI head said the plan had been studied before and economic experts as well as previous governors of the Central Bank more or less agreed to slash some zeroes off the national currency.
Iran to Slash Off 3 Zeroes from Currency
A spokeswoman for North Wales Police said: "The victim, a 37-year-old man who is believed to be local to the area, sustained two slash wounds to his neck.
wales news bulletin: Slashing charges
The new Slash wireless slider handset from consumer electronics company Samsung Mobile (Samsung) has been introduced by Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE:VM), a mobile services provider in the US, representing the first collaboration between the two companies.
Virgin Mobile USA introduces Samsung's Slash slider phone
John Henry Howells, who was better known as Slash, was due to relieve his long-time partner Bev from working at the British Legion club in New Tredegar at around tea-time on Sunday.
Popular steward 'Slash' is found dead at home
'no, sweet Child O'Mine isn't the ring tone on my mobile,' laughs Slash.
'Doctors only gave me three months to live'