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• (UK) IPA ^(key): /slaʃ/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /slæʃ/

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1. (informal) You use / to mean as well as or and, used to separate two items in a list.

   She's the cook / waitress.

Unlike most punctuation marks, this one is usually pronounced when speaking. So, the example above would be spoken as She's the cook slash waitress.