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popslash

noun

Etymology

From pop + slash.

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

Definitions

  1. Slash fan fiction which pairs pop musicians, especially ones belonging to the same boy…

    Slash fan fiction which pairs pop musicians, especially ones belonging to the same boy band.

    • Popslash writers use pop stars as their protagonists, constructing fictional narratives that supplement and enhance those disseminated by the media.
    • Consequently, popslash grew popular among media fan writers, many of whom created similarly brilliant and science fiction-like premises to explore celebrity culture as a metaphor for gender identity and other performances of the self.
    • The popslash phenomenon gathered momentum after a 2001 story that imagined Chris Kirkpatrick of the band 'N Sync experiencing a sudden overnight gender change, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for popslash. 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