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slashing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈslæʃɪŋ/ (US)

Etymology

From slash + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (dated, informal) Powerfully excellent.
    • ‘...Got it this time, Edmund; a slashing bit of work.’ 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
    • Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game. 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:

Forms

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most slashing Degree=Sup lexicographic
more slashing Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

slashingly

Synonyms

sizzling

slashing en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈslæʃɪŋ/ (US)

Etymology

From slash + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The action of something that slashes.
    • The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
  2. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) slash (woody debris)
  3. (countable, uncountable) The penalty called for using the stick to slash an opposing player.

Forms

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slashings Number=Plur lexicographic

slashing en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈslæʃɪŋ/ (US)

Etymology

From slash + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of slash
    form of slash