slashing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slash

plural slashings

1. countableuncountableThe action of something that slashes.

   The criminal gang carried out razor slashings on their enemies.

2. countablein pluraluncountablebusinessslash (woody debris)
3. countableuncountableball gamesThe penalty called for using the stick to slash an opposing player.

comparative more slashing · superlative most slashing

1. datedinformalPowerfully excellent.

   ‘...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

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   Lindsay might be seedy […] or I might by some unlooked-for providence suddenly develop a slashing game.

   1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major

   Synonyms: sizzling