"slasher" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: slashers [plural]
Etymology: From slash + -er. Etymology templates: {{af|en|slash|-er|id2=agent noun}} slash + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} slasher (plural slashers)
  1. One who slashes.
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  2. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
    Sense id: en-slasher-en-noun-8e33lQH1
  3. (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Film, Horror Translations (horror movie): 砍殺電影 (Chinese Mandarin), 砍杀电影 (kǎnshādiànyǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), slasher [masculine] (French), kaszabolós film/horror (Hungarian), スラッシャ映画 (suratshya ēnga) (alt: すらっしゃえいが) (Japanese), slasher [masculine] (Polish), slasher (Spanish)
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  4. A murderer in such a film.
    Sense id: en-slasher-en-noun-dIRES6JM
  5. One who self-injures by cutting.
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  6. A tool for cutting undergrowth. Translations (a tool for cutting undergrowth): hūka (Maori), tāwai (Maori), chwiwgi [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-slasher-en-noun-1OwS4jqj Disambiguation of 'a tool for cutting undergrowth': 0 0 0 0 3 97 0
  7. (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Fan fiction, Genres, Shipping (fandom) Coordinate_terms (slash fiction): shipper
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: femslasher, hack and slasher, hack-and-slasher, slasher film, slasher flick, slasher movie

Inflected forms

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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Melvin R Lansky, Fathers who Fail:",
          "text": "[…] an overdoser, binge drinker, slasher, or sexually impulsive person, is found to act impulsively following some sort of change in a relationship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who self-injures by cutting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "self-injure",
          "self-injure"
        ],
        [
          "cut",
          "cut"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A tool for cutting undergrowth."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English fandom slang",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2002 December 21, Christopher Noxon, “What to do about Harry Potter Porn?”, in The Vancouver Sun, page 96:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Francesca Coppa, “Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance”, in Kristina Busse, editor, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, page 49:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "slash fiction",
          "slash fiction"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "word": "砍殺電影"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kǎnshādiànyǐng",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "word": "砍杀电影"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "slasher"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "word": "kaszabolós film/horror"
    },
    {
      "alt": "すらっしゃえいが",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "suratshya ēnga",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "word": "スラッシャ映画"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "slasher"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "horror movie",
      "word": "slasher"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a tool for cutting undergrowth",
      "word": "hūka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a tool for cutting undergrowth",
      "word": "tāwai"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "a tool for cutting undergrowth",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chwiwgi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "slasher"
}

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