backslash vs slosh

backslash

noun
  • Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /. 

  • 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).}} 

verb
  • To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence. 

slosh

noun
  • backslash, the character \. 

  • Inferior wine or other drink. 

  • A sloshing sound or motion. 

  • A game related to billiards. 

  • A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash. 

  • Slush. 

verb
  • to move noisily through water or other liquid. 

  • To make a sloshing sound. 

  • To punch (someone). 

  • To shift chaotically; to splash noisily. 

  • To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts 

  • To cause to slosh 

How often have the words backslash and slosh occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )