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slashdom

noun

Etymology

From slash + -dom.

  1. derived from *slītan✻ — “to slit, tear”
  2. derived from esclachier
  3. suffixed as slashdom — “slash + dom”

Definitions

  1. The culture or community of slash fiction writers.

    • Apart from that, it's usually for the sex itself, or to explore some interesting question that's come up either in the programme/book or in society in general or in slashdom.
    • The slash community has extensively discussed this issue of slashdom as a homoerotic space.
    • What thrills me, as a slash reader of almost any slashdom (and currently I write in two and read in a total of four, and happily so) is the actual crafting of the storylines and the variety of experiences and activities described in each.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slashdom. 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