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 trounce, beat by a wide margin.
To wrap up temporarily.
To flounder, wallow.
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
To rush hastily.
To eat or drink with gusto.
To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
anything produced by a process that involves boiling; beer, tea, whitewash.
A heavy blow, punch.
A thrill, emotionally excited reaction.
A quick rolling movement; a gallop.
A person's ability to throw such punches.
An emotional impact, psychological force.