To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
To return undelivered.
(sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
To leave.
To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To move rapidly (between).
To attack unexpectedly.
To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
To turn power off and back on; to reset.
A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
Drugs.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
The sack, dismissal.
Swagger.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
A bang, boom.
A talent for leaping.
A good beat in music.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.