slicing

1. 1.

   a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer

   “he took lessons to cure his slicing”

   Synonymsslicefade

   Broadergolf stroke
2. 2.

   the act of cutting into slices

   Broadercut

Other forms of slicing

plural

slicings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slicing

What does slicing mean?

slicing means "a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slicing?

slicing has 2 syllables: sli-cing. The stress falls on "sli". In IPA it is /ˈslaɪsɪŋ/.

What is another word for slicing?

Close synonyms include slice, fade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slicing a common word?

slicing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.