slasher movie

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noun

slang a film in which victims, often women, are slashed with knives, razors, etc

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Words nearby slasher movie

slart, slash, slash-and-burn, Slashdot effect, slasher, slasher movie, slashfest, slash fiction, slashing, slash pine, slash pocket

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They worked just as hard on that as the people who made the good movie did.
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I remember that after the movie, people were saying how depressing it was, and I started an argument with them.
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Then Bill wanted him to go to a movie, and after a praiseworthy hesitation Bud yielded to temptation and went.
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And then I seem to remember reading somewhere about dozens of movie actors going abroad, and how they invariably visited Shaw.
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I remember Nicholson having said that the squire would not go to a "movie," that he regarded his stand as a principle.
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Then I learn that he had told everyone not to say anything about his not having been to a movie for fear that it would offend me.
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I tried to lure my landlady out to a movie, but she thriftily refused.
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