slasher
[slash-er]
- a person or thing that slashes.
- a person who criminally attacks others with a knife, razor, or the like.
- a horror film depicting such a criminal and featuring gory special effects.
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Origin of slasher
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Contemporary Examples
The slasher film series Friday the 13th is well known for its homicidal tendencies.
Halloween also helped spawn the slasher film genre, and provided the genre with many of its tropes.
The Week in Nostalgia: ‘Halloween’ Turns 35, Butch and Sundance Debut, and the iPod is Born (VIDEO)Chancellor Agard
October 26, 2013
For a generation raised on slasher flicks and fountains of gibbering gore this film would be an Ativan.
However reactionary a sycophant to rich people and slasher of programs for others he might be, he is the governor.
Which is fine and dandy for, say, a slasher movie or a Russ Meyer film.
Historical Examples
They call me a beau and a buck, a slasher and dasher, and flourishing Phil.
Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
The Slasher, with an 'Away, slight man' motion of the hand, said 'Gerrout!'
The Making Of A NovelistDavid Christie Murray
Slasher cleared the timbers with a bound and leaped into the bushes.
Beyond the Black RiverRobert E. Howard
"They stand at loom and spinner and slasher all day," she said.
The LandloperHolman Day
Your misgiving be d—d. Tony's as true as steel, and sharp as a slasher.
The Weird of the Wentworths, Vol. 1Johannes Scotus
slasher
- a person or thing that slashes
- Australian and NZ a wooden-handled cutting tool or tractor-drawn machine used for cutting scrub or undergrowth in the bush
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Word Origin and History for slasher
n.
1550s, "a bully, a fighter;" 1815, "weapon for slashing," agent noun from slash (v.). As "violent movie" by 1978.
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