A slashing action or motion, including a swift, broad cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip, a wild swinging strike of the bat in cricket, a hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs in ice hockey or lacrosse, any similar wide striking motion, and a sharp reduction in a figurative sense.

A mark made by a slashing motion, typically a deep cut or laceration caused by an edged weapon or whip, or a deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

A mark resembling a slit in a garment, a clearing in a forest, a punctuation mark, or a vulgar slang term for female genitalia.

(US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.

(fandom slang) Slash fiction.

(vulgar, UK, slang) A piss: an act of urination.

(vulgar, UK, slang, rare) Urine.

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.

(Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.

(UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.

Cut or attempt to cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon, produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip, strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick in ice hockey, reduce sharply, create slashes in a garment, or criticize cuttingly.

To strike violently and randomly, particularly in the context of cricket, it means to swing wildly at the ball.

To move quickly and violently.

To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

(US, Canada) To clear land, with violent action such as logging or brushfires or through grazing.

(intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.

(UK, slang, intransitive) To piss, to urinate.

(Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.

Used to note the sound or action of a slash.

(Canada, US) Used to connect two or more identities in a list.

(Canada, US) Used to list alternatives.