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backslashes

backslashes is the plural of backslash.

backslashes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backslash.

Meaning of backslash

Noun

backslash (plural backslashes)

  1. The punctuation mark \ (a left-leaning diagonal line). (Common uses include (1) use as a delimiter in filepaths and (2) use as an escape character to mark literals.)
  2. (proscribed, rare) The punctuation mark /; a slash, forward slash.
    • […] 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).2001, James T. Bretzke, Bibliography on East Asian Religion and Philosophy, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 455

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Questions about backslashes

What is backslashes the plural of?
Backslashes is the plural of backslash.

Words near backslashes in the dictionary

  1. backslapping
  2. backslappings
  3. backslaps
  4. backslash
  5. backslashed
  6. backslashes
  7. backslashing
  8. backslid
  9. backslidden
  10. backslide
  11. backslided

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backslashes (page history and authors); backslash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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