slashing
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
slashing
- present participle and gerund of slash
Noun edit
slashing (countable and uncountable, plural slashings)
- The action of something that slashes.
- The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
- (forestry, in the plural) slash (woody debris)
Adjective edit
slashing (comparative more slashing, superlative most slashing)
- (informal, dated) Powerfully excellent.
- Synonym: sizzling
- 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
- Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
- ‘...Got it this time, Edmund; a slashing bit of work.’