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slice and dice en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To cut and chop to pieces.
    • To slice and dice: Place the onion on a chopping board, and slice it in half lengthwise. 2009, Ellen Brown, $3 Meals in Minutes […] , Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 23:
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To rearrange or analyze in a number of different ways, often arbitrarily.
    • To demonstrate how to create an OLAP report, here's a chance to slice and dice some data from a cube based on the Xtreme database and see what it can tell you. 2011, Allen G. Taylor, Crystal Reports 2008 For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 222:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
slicing and dicing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sliced and diced Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sliced and diced Tense=Past lexicographic
slices and dices Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic