slasher
Americannoun
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a person or thing that slashes.
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a person who criminally attacks others with a knife, razor, or the like.
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a horror film depicting such a criminal and featuring gory special effects.
noun
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a person or thing that slashes
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a wooden-handled cutting tool or tractor-drawn machine used for cutting scrub or undergrowth in the bush
Etymology
Origin of slasher
Example Sentences
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"Scream 7," the latest installment in the 30-year-old slasher series featuring yet another Ghostface killer, held strong in second place at $17.3 million in the United States and Canada, according to Exhibitor Relations.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
“We’re asking people to empathize with a monster, with something that was the slasher in a slasher movie to some degree, decades ago.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
The slasher movie hadn’t been around long before a shaggy-haired, 30-year-old film-school dropout named John Carpenter came along and perfected it, in 1978, with “Halloween.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Hot on the heels of 28 Years Later comes I Know What You Did Last Summer, a sort-of-but-not-technically remake of the 1997 slasher classic.
From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025
He has the better jumper, but I’m the better slasher.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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