To dig or excavate with the claws.
To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
to get such scratches
To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that they were previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
Money.
A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
A scratch wig.
A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
Scrawled or illegible handwriting; chicken scratch.
The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
An injury.
Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
(of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
To create slashes in a garment.
To criticize cuttingly.
To swing wildly at the ball.
To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
To write slash fiction.
To piss, to urinate.
To work in wet conditions.
To reduce sharply.
To move quickly and violently.
To strike violently and randomly
To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey or lacrosse stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
A swampy area; a swamp.
A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
Slash fiction.
A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
A piss: an act of urination.
Female genitalia.
A wild swinging strike of the bat.
A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
A sharp reduction.
A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
Any similar wide striking motion.
A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
Used to note the sound or action of a slash.
Used to connect two or more identities in a list.
Used to list alternatives.