[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.", "a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.:3/21/27; “Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)", "a short oblique stroke (/) used in computing; a forward slash."]}]