Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
backslash .
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Examples
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The draft shows Franklin’s heavy printer’s pen crossing out the phrase with backslashes and changing it to “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009
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Apart from the fact that the author meant "backslashes" not "slashes", this makes it obvious.
Planet TW 2009
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Here's how Sartalics will work: when you want to send a sarcastic comment, you will simply put your sarcastic sentence between two backslashes and the words will slant to the left, signifying that what you are saying is the opposite of what you mean.
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Stupid backslashes (and stupid missing Gawker comment preview button). joelena
Turn Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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For what its worth, there are no backslashes in that URL.
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But I see one little problem: when it loads the contents of the textareas from the cookies and echos them to the screen, PHP escapes single quotes, ampersands, backslashes, etc. with backslashes.
GridNote - A grid of sticky notes Jonathan Aquino 2007
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Stupid backslashes and stupid missing Gawker comment preview button.
Turn Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Not to mention, the savings from the idiots who insist on referring to them as “backslashes”.
The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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You probably have some mismatched parens or need to escape the parens with backslashes.
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No worries, Lessie, I still miss those closing backslashes all the time. wren
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