Crossword clues for backslash
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The punctuation mark ''''. 2 (context computing rare proscribed English) (non-gloss definition: Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark ''/''.) vb. (context computing transitive English) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
Wikipedia
The backslash (\) is a typographical mark ( glyph) used mainly in computing and is the mirror image of the common slash (/). It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/ UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, backslant, downhill, backwhack, and in rare occasions, bash, reverse slant, and reversed virgule. In Unicode, it is encoded at .
Usage examples of "backslash".
I avoided it and his backslash, then jumped on top of the table and pinned him to the floor with it.
Pardu driven back two steps until, with a sweeping backslash, he leapt to the right and sidestepped round to give himself more space.
Lorn uses the last charge in the firelancethe last of those he had put there the night before through his own efforts as a maguson a rider who seems to be a leader, then drops the weapon and pulls out his second sabre, half ducking, half sliding the blade of a barbarian, then offering a backslash to another as he passes.
Maybe it was just a software error, a glitch that tripped the audible-Aw, shit backslash It wasn't an error!