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 stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
To persist or continue with something.
To ingest a drug rectally
To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
An electric socket: wall plug.
Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
A high, tapering silk hat.
A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
A drug dealer.
A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
A worthless horse.
A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.