slasher

See also: Slasher

English

Etymology

slash +‎ -er

Noun

slasher (plural slashers)

1. One who slashes.
2. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
3. (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
   • 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2018:

     Realizing there was a fresh market for a style of movie that studios had written off as niche material, Scream’s gonzo profits ushered in a wave of subsequent slashers trying to capitalize on a new generation’s discovery of the subgenre, as Gen Xers and Gen Yers alike learned (or re-learned) the fundamental pleasures of a good old-fashioned murder spree by a crazed killer, supernatural or otherwise.

4. A murderer in such a film.
5. One who self-injures by cutting.
   • 1992, Melvin R Lansky, Fathers who Fail:

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

6. A tool for cutting undergrowth.
7. (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
   • 2002 December 21, Christopher Noxon, “What to do about Harry Potter Porn?”, in The Vancouver Sun, page 96:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• (slash fiction): shipper

Derived terms

• femslasher
• hack and slasher
• hack-and-slasher
• slasher film
• slasher flick
• slasher movie

 

Translations

one who slashes

horror movie

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 砍殺電影／砍杀电影 (kǎnshādiànyǐng)

• French: slasher (fr) m
• Hungarian: kaszabolós film/horror
• Japanese: スラッシャ映画 (すらっしゃえいが, suratshya ēnga)
• Polish: slasher m
• Spanish: slasher

a tool for cutting undergrowth

• Maori: hūka, tāwai
• Welsh: chwiwgi m

Anagrams

• Haslers, Hassler, Larshes, Lashers, ashlers, halsers, hassler, lashers

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cine slasher

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slasher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈlaʃeɾ/ [esˈla.ʃeɾ]
• Rhymes: -aʃeɾ

Noun

slasher m (plural slashers)

1. slasher (horror subgenre)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Hypernyms

• cine de terror