Slash vs Smash - What's the difference?
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A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.
A swift striking movement.
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The symbol , also called diagonal, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule. Also sometimes known as a forward slash, particularly in computing.
(British, slang) A pee, a trip to the toilet to urinate
Slash fiction.
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(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia
(ice hockey) A quick and hard lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across the arms or legs.
(US, dialect) swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes
(forestry) Coarse, fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow, etc.
(fashion) An opening in an item of clothing to show skin or a contrasting fabric underneath.
To cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc.
(ice hockey) to strike laterally with a hockey stick. usually across the legs or arms
to reduce sharply
To lash with a whip.
To crack or snap (e.g. a whip).
The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
(British, colloquial) A traffic accident.
(colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
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(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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(colloquial, archaic) bankruptcy
To break (something brittle) violently.
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(figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
(figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly.
(US) To deform through continuous pressure.
To be destroyed by being smashed.
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
As nouns the difference between slash and smash
is that slash is a swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc while smash is the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.As verbs the difference between slash and smash
is that slash is to cut violently across something with a blade such as knife, sword, scythe, etc while smash is to break (something brittle) violently.As a conjunction slash
is Used to connect two or more identities in a list.slash
English
Noun
(es)citation, page= , passage=Centre-back Branislav Ivanovic then took a wild slash at the ball but his captain John Terry saved Chelsea's skin by hacking the ball clear for a corner with Kevin Davies set to strike from just six yards out. }}
- Excuse me, I need to take a slash
- Comments merely allow readers to proclaim themselves mortally offended by the content of a story, despite having been warned in large block letters of INCEST or SLASH (any kind of sex between two men or two women: the term originated with the Kirk/Spock pairing – it described the literal slash between their names).
- (Bartlett)
- Slash generated during logging operations may increase fire hazard.
Derived terms
* backslash * foreslash * forward slash * frontslash * front slash * slashable * slashySee also
(punctuation)Verb
(es)- Iran on Thursday called on OPEC to slash output by 2 million barrels per day.
- The department store slashed its prices to attract customers.
- (King)
Derived terms
slash pileConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- I'm a teacher slash student.
- I think I'm having hallucinations slash someone is playing tricks on me
See also
*smash
English
Noun
(smashes)- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash .
- This new show of mine is sure to be a smash .
- Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
- A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
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Synonyms
* (sound of a violent impact ): crash * (colloquial: traffic accident ): crash * (colloquial: something very successful ): smash hitVerb
(es)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.