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slash fiction

noun

Etymology

From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.

Definitions

  1. A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between…

    A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).

    • But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.

  2. A work in the genre of slash fiction

The neighborhood

Derived

boyslash, f, f slash, femslash, femslasher, m, m slash, pre-slash, slash, slashable, slashdom, slasher, slashfic, slashy, slashzine

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slash fiction. 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