slashing

Etymology

slash + -ing

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of slash

noun

  1. The action of something that slashes.
    The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
  2. (forestry, in the plural) slash (woody debris)

adj

  1. (informal, dated) Powerfully excellent.
    Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game. 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

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