Meaning

7 senses
  1. One who slashes.

    someone who slashes another person

  2. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

  3. (informal)A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.

  4. A murderer in such a film.

  5. One who self-injures by cutting.

  6. A tool for cutting undergrowth.

  7. (slang)One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The final girl in the slasher's name is Mary.

  2. A mother and her two children were stabbed to death in a slasher incident.

  3. Scary Movie is a spoof of Scream, which is a spoof of the slasher genre.

Translations

3 languages

Forms

plural: slashers
Singularslasher
Pluralslashers

regular

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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