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English
Etymology
From slash + -ing.
Pronunciation
Verb
slashing
- present participle and gerund of slash
Noun
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
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.’
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