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enemyslash

noun

Etymology

From enemy + slash.

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

Definitions

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

    • As an intimatopic 'enemyslash' fic, Harry Potter and the Bound Prince centers on the development of intimacy as expressed through sex and eroticized comfort between two characters that are enemies in the series canon […]
    • As a result, Harry Potter fandom again denies well-known theories of slash, as its most popular pairing – Harry/Draco – belongs to the enemyslash category.
    • Catherine Tosenberger suggests that the joy of an enemyslash pairing lies in watching the antagonists overcome their differences.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for enemyslash. 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