slashing

The action of something that slashes.

Adjective

  1. 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:
    • ‘...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, →OCLC, page 56:

    Synonyms: sizzling

Origin

Etymology tree English slash English -ing English slashing From slash + -ing.

Forms

more slashing most slashing

Derived

slashingly

Noun

  1. The action of something that slashes.
    • The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.
  2. slash (woody debris)
  3. The penalty called for using the stick to slash an opposing player.

Forms

slashings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of slash