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/slˈaɪsɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Slice v. t. (past & past part. sliced; pres. part. slicing)

To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.

To cut into parts; to divide.

To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.

(Golf) To hit (the ball) so that the face of the club draws across the face of the ball and deflects it.

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Etymology of 'Slicing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Slicing" Quotes from Famous Books

... attack struck his end now it turned in, slicing off tackle, the runner well screened by close interference that held him up when Stover tackled, dragging him on for the precious yards. Three and four yards at a time, the blue advance rolled its way irresistibly toward the red and black goal. They were ...

— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... end now it turned in, slicing off tackle, the runner well screened by close interference that held him up when Stover tackled, dragging him on for the precious yards. Three and four yards at a time, the blue advance rolled its way irresistibly toward ...

— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... founder of this library died, and his son now sits in his saddle at Fort Simpson. If you were to wander across the court, as I did to-day, and look into the Sales Shop, you would see the presentation sword of this last-generation Carnegie, ignobly slicing bacon for an Indian customer. ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... obliged to admit," the young man went on, slicing into the quivering aspic, "that I don't know myself. I never could find out. Perhaps the young person in the—the not-too-long skirts, waved her wand over the bird and he jumped in and the hole closed up?" He slipped a section of the bird in question upon the lady's plate ...

— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... campaign. I do not desire to have you engaged in the least more glory than you have been. I should not love the remainder of you the least better for your having lost an arm or a leg, and have as full persuasion of your courage as if you had contributed to the slicing off twenty pair from French officers. Thank God. you have sense enough to content yourself without being a hero! though I don't quite forget your expedition a hussar-hunting the beginning of this campaign. Pray, no more of ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole