[ UK /slˈɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a narrow fissure
  2. a long narrow opening
  3. obscene terms for female genitals
  4. a depression scratched or carved into a surface
VERB
  1. cut a slit into
    slit the throat of the victim
  2. make a clean cut through
    slit her throat
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How To Use slit In A Sentence

  • The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.
  • For the use of men they have the "merkin," [FN#410] a heart-shaped article of thin skin stuffed with cotton and slit with an artificial vagina: two tapes at the top and one below lash it to the back of a chair. Arabian nights. English
  • Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
  • It was a fitting gown with long slits, black in color and had shiny small stones cut into tiny roses embroidered at the hem of the long skirt.
  • First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
  • Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
  • It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
  • En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror.
  • Teigue was about to repeat the motion, when one of Marin's eyes slitted open sleepily.
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