slashy

adjective8

1. •
   Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.

   • Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one. — 2008
2. •
   making a movement akin to swiping a sword.

   • Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus. — 2002
3. •
   of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush

   • most contemporary art Bailey gives us images of classical order and balance In place of slashy brushwork and sludgy paint he gives us solid figures and uminous color. — 1988
4. •
   (slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.

   • It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch. — 2001
5. •
   darting, running in a zigzag motion

   • "Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them..." — 2007
6. •
   resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)

   • It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name, — 2009
7. •
   wet, having wet ground, slushy

   • Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships — 1962
8. •
   slushy, very romantic