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the single cut that turns a whole into a piece worth fighting over
means To cut something cleanly into thin or flat pieces, or one such piece carved off from a larger whole.
from From Old French 'esclice,' a splinter or thin piece, drawn from the verb 'esclicier,' to splinter or shatter — itself rooted in a Germanic word for splitting, a cousin of words like 'slit' and 'split.' The blade-edge sense was there from the start: 'slice' was always about the clean break, not the messy tear.
golf cursea slice sends the ball spinning hopelessly rightward
tennis weaponbackspin keeps the ball low and skidding
pizza geometryone pie, infinite arguments over the bigger slice
data slangprogrammers slice arrays to grab exact ranges
cake sciencethe first cut releases tension across the whole layer