Hide
Hide verb - To strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible.
Usage example: threatened to hide the boys with his cane if he ever found them on his property again
Slash
Slash verb - To strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible.
Usage example: wildly slashing the ground with his club and never once hitting the golf ball he was aiming at
How words are described
| normal | normal hide | normal slash |
| right | right hide | right slash |
| lead | lead hide | lead slash |
| nasty | nasty hide | nasty slash |
| Other adjectives: powerful, big, former, final, yellow, red. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Beatles have a disturbingly large slash community with Lennon/McCartney being the most popular for certain reasons note Hey, you've got to hide your love away..
Source: Slash Fic -
In the Japanese version he was named Slash instead of Nikki, which made him a shoutout to the Guns N' Roses guitarist and to hide.
Source: Visual Kei -
There was once a (now-removed) X Japan Real Person Slash fic that combined the later-mentioned hide version of this with The Reveal, Tomato Surprise, Drama Bomb, and Alternate Universe.
Source: Elvis Lives
Cite this Source
Slash and Hide. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/slash
Hide & Slash. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/slash>.
Slash or Hide. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hide/slash.
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