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slashy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈslæʃi/

Etymology

From slash + -y.

Meanings

1. Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
   • Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one. 2008 March 25, Zach Welhouse, “Starring Sephiroth and Some Other Chumps”, in RPGamer, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2008:
   • Blade Warriors the game reviewed today is the first Onimusha game to come with a play style of its own It is a slashy fighting game with clanging swords 2004 March 25, “Pick up those blades and fight”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
2. resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
   • It was written by a fellow named Hans S. Tommerholt, and I apologize to you all, but there's actually a slashy thing through the first "o" in his last name, 2009 June 22, Ted Dziuba, “Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance”, in The Register:
3. wet, having wet ground, slushy
   • Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships 1962 January 21, “Italy's No. 2 Team Leads In Two-Man Bobsled Meet”, in Baltimore Sun^(https://archive.today/20130630042403/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1708903982.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jan+21,+1962&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Italy's+No.+2+Team+Leads+In+Two-Man+Bobsled+Meet&pqatl=google), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
   • The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult. 1940 June 27, “East Bengal Beat Sporting Union Calcutta League Football”, in Indian Express:
4. making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
   • Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus. 2002 June 21, Owen Gleiberman, “The Bourne Identity”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2011:
   • "He is a very slashy player. Every time a shot goes up, I have to find him and know where he is at all times because he is a great offensive rebounder..." 2002 March 24, Gary Lambrecht, Baltimore Sun:
5. darting, running in a zigzag motion
   • "Steve Smith is more of a slashy guy, very quick. He runs really good routes. Jarrett is a prototypical big receiver. He gets up there with the best of them..." 2007 January 1, Teddy Greenstein, “2-for-1 promotion ; Michigan-USC winner figures to be preseason No. 1 team in 2007”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
6. of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
   • In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing. 2007, Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon, page 88:
   • most contemporary art Bailey gives us images of classical order and balance In place of slashy brushwork and sludgy paint he gives us solid figures and uminous color. 1988 May 1, Bill van Siclen, “Bailey's 'realism' is really something else His 'tablescapes' are deceptively simple”, in Providence Journal, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
7. slushy, very romantic
8. (slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.
   • As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […] 2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:
   • One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […] 2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:
   • It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch. 2001, Kelly Simca Boyd, "'One Index Finger On The Mouse Scroll And The Other On My Clit': Slash Writers' Views On Pornography, Censorship, Feminism and Risk", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 156

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