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present participle and gerund of slash examples
countable and uncountable, plural slashings
The action of something that slashes. examples
(forestry, in the plural) slash (woody debris) examples
comparative more slashing, superlative most slashing
(informal, dated) Powerfully excellent. quotations examples
Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game.
1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
‘...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, page 56