Slasher

Quick meaning: Slasher is a noun meaning One who slashes.

Meaning

One who slashes.

More Meanings

1. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
2. (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
3. A murderer in such a film.
4. One who self-injures by cutting.
5. A tool for cutting undergrowth.
6. (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.

Example Sentences

[…] an overdoser, binge drinker, slasher, or sexually impulsive person, is found to act impulsively following some sort of change in a relationship.

With the success of the first film and the third one already in production, Warner Bros. is more likely to greet Harry Potter slashers with more takedown orders than tolerance.

In other words denied their own voice by a conservative misogynist culture, the original female slashers and vidders needed male characters as surrogates to express their own identity and desires.

The same aspects that made buddy shows attractive to relationship-oriented fans also made them attractive to slashers; the fact that these shows were set in an era of tight jeans and unbuttoned shirts, and of the loosening of formerly strict standards of acceptable male behavior, only provided additional evidence for homoerotic interpretation.

Word Forms

• slashers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slitter, slayer, splatterer, slicer, self-slayer, sliverer.

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