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 obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
To smoothe and polish, e.g., gemstones or pebbles, by means of a rotating tumbler.
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
To have sexual intercourse.
To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
To drop rapidly.
A fall, especially end over end.
An act of sexual intercourse.
A disorderly heap.