Contextualizebeta

buddyslash

noun

Etymology

From buddy + slash.

  1. derived from *slītan✻ — “to slit, tear”
  2. derived from esclachier
  3. compounded as buddyslash — “buddy + slash”

Definitions

  1. Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between friends.

    • Slash about Harry and Draco, who are enemies in canon, complicates academic theories of slash that are predicated upon the Kirk/Spock “buddyslash” model.
    • Although the pairing of Harry and Ron may seem as a typical example of buddyslash, one has to consider the presence of Hermione Granger as Harry's second sidekick.
    • It is most commonly noted that the first famous pairing of Kirk/Spock, or Spirk, falls under the category of buddyslash.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for buddyslash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA