slash

A slash of his blade just missed my ear.

He took a wild slash at the ball but the captain saved the team's skin by hacking it clear and setting up the team for a strike on the goal.

After the war ended, the army saw a 50% slash in their operating budget.

He was bleeding from a slash across his cheek.

We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

Slash generated during logging may constitute a fire hazard.

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).