slash.html - noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (People and Society) Used attributively (in slasher film, slasher movie, etc.) of horror films or videos which depict vicious or violent behaviour. Etymology: So named because the attacker is shown slashing the victims with a knife or carrying out similarly violent attacks. History and Usage: Slasher was first used as the name for a violent horror film in the mid seventies; however, the genre really became established in the mid eighties, with ever more gory horror films being released for rental through video clubs. Slasher films came in for a good deal of criticism in the mid eighties, as people started to make a connection between the fashion for them and rising levels of violent crime. Paramount's low-budget slasher film Friday the 13th Part 3 in 'super 3-D' was roundly thrashed by critics ('Trash', said Newsweek). Forbes 27 Sept. 1982, p.
176 Instead of the breakdance and slasher movies aimed at the teen market, you have more thought-provoking films like Rain Man and Dangerous Liaisons. Sunday Telegraph 19 Mar. 1989, p. 11

slash.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. make a sweeping or random cut or cuts with a knife, sword, whip, etc.
2 tr. make such a cut or cuts at.
3 tr. make a long narrow gash or gashes in.
4 tr. reduce (prices etc.) drastically.
5 tr. censure vigorously.
6 tr. make (one's way) by slashing.
7 tr. a lash (a person etc.) with a whip. b crack (a whip).

--n.

1 a a slashing cut or stroke. b a wound or slit made by this.
2 an oblique stroke; a solidus.
3 Brit. sl. an act of urinating.
4 US debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.

slash-and-burn (of cultivation) in which vegetation is cut down, allowed to dry, and then burned off before seeds are planted.

slasher n. [ME perh. f. OF esclachier break in pieces]

slash.html - adj.
(of a sleeve etc.) having slits to show a lining or puffing of other material.

slash.html - adj.
vigorously incisive or effective.

slash.html - noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (People and Society) Used attributively (in slasher film, slasher movie, etc.) of horror films or videos which depict vicious or violent behaviour. Etymology: So named because the attacker is shown slashing the victims with a knife or carrying out similarly violent attacks. History and Usage: Slasher was first used as the name for a violent horror film in the mid seventies; however, the genre really became established in the mid eighties, with ever more gory horror films being released for rental through video clubs. Slasher films came in for a good deal of criticism in the mid eighties, as people started to make a connection between the fashion for them and rising levels of violent crime. Paramount's low-budget slasher film Friday the 13th Part 3 in 'super 3-D' was roundly thrashed by critics ('Trash', said Newsweek). Forbes 27 Sept. 1982, p.
176 Instead of the breakdance and slasher movies aimed at the teen market, you have more thought-provoking films like Rain Man and Dangerous Liaisons. Sunday Telegraph 19 Mar. 1989, p. 11

slash.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. make a sweeping or random cut or cuts with a knife, sword, whip, etc.
2 tr. make such a cut or cuts at.
3 tr. make a long narrow gash or gashes in.
4 tr. reduce (prices etc.) drastically.
5 tr. censure vigorously.
6 tr. make (one's way) by slashing.
7 tr. a lash (a person etc.) with a whip. b crack (a whip).

--n.

1 a a slashing cut or stroke. b a wound or slit made by this.
2 an oblique stroke; a solidus.
3 Brit. sl. an act of urinating.
4 US debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.

slash-and-burn (of cultivation) in which vegetation is cut down, allowed to dry, and then burned off before seeds are planted.

slasher n. [ME perh. f. OF esclachier break in pieces]