slit

[slit] /slɪt/
verb (used with object), slit, slitting.
1.
to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
2.
to cut or rend into strips; split.
noun
3.
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
Origin
1175-1225; Middle English slitte (noun), slitten (v.); cognate with German schlitzen to split, slit; akin to Old English slite a slit, geslit a bite, slītan to split; see slice
Related forms
slitless, adjective
slitlike, adjective
Examples from the web for slit
  • The neck is visibly constricted and the blowhole is a longitudinal slit.
British Dictionary definitions for slit

slit

/slɪt/
verb (transitive) slits, slitting, slit
1.
to make a straight long incision in; split open
2.
to cut into strips lengthwise
3.
to sever
noun
4.
a long narrow cut
5.
a long narrow opening
Derived Forms
slitter, noun
Word Origin
Old English slītan to slice; related to Old Norse slita, Old High German slīzen
Word Origin and History for slit
v.

c.1200, from or related to Old English slitan "to slit, tear, split, rend to pieces; bite, sting; back-bite," from Proto-Germanic *slitan (cf. Old Saxon slitan, Old Frisian slita, Old Norse slita, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sliten, Dutch slijten, Old High German slizan, German schleißen "to slit"). A more violent verb in Old English than after, e.g. slitcwealm "death by rending." Slit skirt is attested from 1913.A slitting-mill (1660s) cut iron plates into thin rods for making nails, etc.

n.

mid-13c., "long cut or rent (in clothes), incision," from slit (v.). Slang sense of "vulva" is attested from 1640s. Old English had slit (n.) with a sense of "a rending, bite; backbiting."

Slang definitions & phrases for slit

slit

noun

The vulva; cunt (1648+)