Virgule (noun)
ver-gew-l
A slash, in the punctuation sense, like /.
From the French, literally ‘comma’, from Latin Virgula, literally ‘slash’.
Example sentences
“The problem is I’m as in the middle as the virgule between rock/hard place.”

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