slice

noun

• 1a thin, broad piece of food, such as bread, meat, or cake, cut from a larger portion:four slices of bread potato slices
• a single serving of pizza, typically one eighth of a pie:every payday we’d meet at Vinnie’s for a beer and a couple of slices
• a portion or share of something:local authorities control a huge slice of public spending

• 2 Golf a stroke that makes the ball curve away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently. Compare with hook.
• (in other sports) a shot or stroke made with glancing contact to impart spin.

• 3a utensil with a broad, flat blade for lifting foods such as cake and fish.

verb

• 1cut (something, especially food) into slices:slice the onion into rings (as adjective sliced)a sliced loaf
• (slice something off/from) cut something or a piece of something off or from (something larger), typically with one clean cut:he sliced a corner from a fried egg figurativehe sliced 70 seconds off the record
• cut with or as if with a sharp implement:the bomber’s wings were slicing the air with some efficiency [no object]:the blade sliced into his palm
• [no object] move easily and quickly:Senna then sliced past Berger to take third place

• 2 Golf strike (the ball) or play (a stroke) so that the ball curves away to the right (for a left-handed player, the left), typically inadvertently.
• (in other sports) propel (the ball) with a glancing contact to impart spin:Evans went and sliced a corner into his own net