Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: slit
IPA transcription: [sl'ɪt]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: slit
    Meaning: a long narrow opening
  • Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat
    Meaning: obscene terms for female genitals
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: slit, slice
    Meaning: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat"
  • Synonyms: slit
    Meaning: cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"
Usage examples
  • She was the color of pale earth, with a pinched nose, and a mere slit in her face for a mouth.
  • Carrying Game.--To carry small Game, as Fallow Deer.--Make a long slit with your knife between the back sinew and the bone of both of the hind-legs.
  • Cyril moved the table off the carpet as he spoke, and its leg caught in one of Anthea's darns and ripped away most of it, as well as a large slit in the carpet.
  • But though she said this she did not care to look again, and kept her eyes turned away so as not to meet the foxy slit ones of her mistress, for that was too much for her.
  • The prince was not a little surprised, but he consented to hide himself with Asmund behind the panelling of the room, from where they could see all that went on through a little slit.
  • And then, in the gleam from the electric lights there was revealed underneath and in the left side of the dead woman a clean slit through her light dress--a slit the edges of which were stained with blood.
  • It was slit to the shoulder, and gave entrancing glimpses of her arms with every movement, leaving them almost bare when she lifted her hands, which was often, for she was as full of gestures as a Frenchwoman.
  • In 1545, a gipsy who had infringed the sentence of banishment was condemned by the Court of Utrecht to be flogged till the blood appeared, to have his nostrils slit, his hair removed, his beard shaved off, and to be banished for life.
  • The frame is slit at the inner horizontal edges, and then folded in such a way as to make individual clamping-jaws for each end-flange. The clamping-in is done at great pressure, and the resultant plate has great rigidity and strength.
  • Now thrust the right fore-leg through the slit in the left hind one, and then the left fore-leg through the slit in the right hind one, and holding these firmly in their places, push the skewer right through the left fore-leg, so as to peg it from drawing back.