"hack-and-slay" meaning in English

See hack-and-slay in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hack-and-slay.wav
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} hack-and-slay (not comparable)
  1. (roleplaying games, video games, informal) Synonym of hack-and-slash. Tags: informal, not-comparable Synonyms: hack-and-slash [synonym, synonym-of]
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hack-and-slay (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English coordinated pairs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Role-playing games",
          "orig": "en:Role-playing games",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, Elke Hemminger, The Mergence of Spaces, page 47:",
          "text": "It is usually the 'hack-and-slay' gaming that is publicly discussed, the rapid killing of monsters for a quick rise in levels.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of hack-and-slash."
      ],
      "id": "en-hack-and-slay-en-adj-TtsVHycY",
      "links": [
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "hack-and-slash",
          "hack-and-slash#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(roleplaying games, video games, informal) Synonym of hack-and-slash."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "hack-and-slash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hack-and-slay.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack-and-slay"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "hack-and-slay (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English coordinated pairs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Role-playing games",
        "en:Video games"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009, Elke Hemminger, The Mergence of Spaces, page 47:",
          "text": "It is usually the 'hack-and-slay' gaming that is publicly discussed, the rapid killing of monsters for a quick rise in levels.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of hack-and-slash."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "hack-and-slash",
          "hack-and-slash#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(roleplaying games, video games, informal) Synonym of hack-and-slash."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "hack-and-slash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hack-and-slay.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-hack-and-slay.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hack-and-slay"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hack-and-slay meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (a681f8a and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.