slash n.
1. an outside pocket [SE slash, a slit in a garment that is designed to reveal the colour of the lining].
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘For I Will Prig For Ever’ in Flare-Up Songster 19: Again He’ll cut a dash, / At play, or prize ring act the swell, / And ease some spooney’s slash [...] Whilst Sally’s eye / Winks soft and sly, / He dings to her the cash. | |
| Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 165/1: Slash – outside coat pocket. | |
 | Manchester Wkly Times 23 Aug. 11/3: They assemble to share their spoils [...] the thimbles (watches) [...] from the pits (breast pockets) or slashes (outside coat pocket). | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Vocabulum. | |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 8: Slash - Outside coat-pocket. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. in context of urination [? SE slash, a thin, sloping line, i.e. that of urine; or echoic of the urine hitting the lavatory water].
(a) an act of urination.
| Billy Liar (1962) 34: ‘Off for a slash,’ I muttered. | |
| Saved Scene x: Then ’e ’ops out an’ I ’as a little slash in ’is tea. | |
| All Bull 63: He infuriated Bob by not having his slash on the way in. | |
| On the Yankee Station (1982) 46: ‘Where are you going, Payne?’ Niles said tiredly. ‘For a slash, Niles.’. | |
| Traveller’s Tool 79: Every time a business colleague nicked off in mid T-bone through the swing door for a quick slash or a technicolour yawn. | |
| Now You Know 40: Keep my shirt and socks on while I go [...] and have a slash. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers xxii: The Flea was in the Leger brassco having a slash. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | The Joy (2015) [ebook] [I] call one of the screws [...] to let me olut for a slash. | |
| Chopper 4 18: Men [...] never wash their hands after a slash. | |
| Locked Ward (2013) 247: He’s not in his farter [...] He’s takin’ a slash. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Young Team 137: A just want tae git tae a prtaloo fur a slash. |
(b) urine.
| Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman 133: On the floor by the bed there was a bottle of slash that looked like orange juice from more than one country. | |
| Stump 185: You’d probly start drinkin yer own slash before the fuckin water ran out. |
3. an alcoholic drink [DSUE suggests play on piss-up n.].
| DSUE (8th edn) 1084/2: [...] since ca. 1930. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 7: slash – small quantity of alcohol: Give me a slash of that beer. |
4. (Aus./US) the vagina; thus slash stash, income from commercial sex[note Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49): ‘The agreeable interior red of the sides of the orifice came into view, and with respect to the white that dazzl’d round it, give somewhat the idea of a pink-slash in the glossiest of white sattin’].
| [ | | Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies 136: A lovely chestnut fringe, terminated by a pouting slash hole, which is far from being indefensible to the raptures of its grisly antagonist]. |
| 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases. | |
| Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 119: SLASH — the female vagina. | |
| (con. 1968) Reckoning for Kings (1989) 279: Great fiancée with a pussy like a country club golf course [...] Got too busy with the slash, so they flunked my ass. | |
| Lex. of Cadet Lang. 348: slash1 the vulva. | |
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 133: That’s why he got 50 per cent of the slash stash. |
In compounds
(Aus.) a girl, a woman.
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 324: [O]ut to impress his latest piece of slash into getting her gear off. |