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 turn another way; to divert.
To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
to misinterpret designedly.
To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.