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1:  Genre of fanfiction involving pairing two male or female characters together; characters are commonly shown with a slash in between

  * e.g.,  ...  A lot of people are interested in reading Harry/Draco slash 

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2:  Famous guitarist, whose major bands include Guns N Roses, Snakepit and Velvet Revolver

  * e.g.,  ...  Slash is an amazing guitarist! 

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3:  Action of cutting or slitting.

  * e.g.,  ...  Did you see the slashes on her wrist? or He slashed the tires 

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4:  Character denoting "and" or "or"

  * e.g.,  ...  Please allow your parent/guardian to sign this form 

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1: Verb. To take a piss/urinate, primarily used by men.

  * e.g.,  ... Mate, can you pull over? I need to take a slash ASAP. 

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1: to have sex with

  * e.g.,  ... "I wanna know how come we can never slash and stay friends" -Drake, Blem, More Life 

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1: Word used in fanfiction to denote homosexual pairings. Usually male/male, sometimes female/female AKA femmeslash.

  * e.g.,  ... I am warning you: this is slash! So, if you don't want to see two hot guys getting it on, don't read this fic. Harry/Draco 

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2: Often used interchangeably with yaoi or yuri.

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3: Slash originated in the early days of Star Trek fanfiction. Kirk/(slash)Spock.

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4: Also very popular with Harry Potter shippers...Harry/Draco, Sirius/Lupin, Snape/Lucius, etc..

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5: Sometimes referred to as "yummy slashy goodness"

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6: See also: smut

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1: To cut with sweeping strokes.

  * e.g.,  ... Barney the dinosaur lay in a bloody heap, slashed to pieces by his detractors. 

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2: In British slang, it means to urinate.

  * e.g.,  ... Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Highlander, among other works, are fertle grounds for slash writers. LOTR, with the intimacy and love between the male characters, is especially rich with slash material. 

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3: A famous guitarist.

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4: A genre of fanfiction in which two characters are engaged in a homosexual love affair. The name comes from the slash between the two characters featured; Kirk/Spock, Sam/Frodo, Pippin/Merry, and so forth. Gay male pairings are usually referred to as yaoi, and especially with anime.

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5: Femslash or femmeslash is used when the couple is a lesbian couple; Arwen/Eowyn, Galadriel/Luthien, et cetera. Yuri is the term used for femmeslash in anime.

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6: Slash ranges in subject matter from innocent crushes to passionate, endearing love to explicit erotica. The story can also range from perky and humorous to dramatic and angsty to heartbreakingly tragic, and have a sweet to harsh quality.

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7: Although gay males are often thought to be the main writers of slash, young, heterosexual women are the ones who write most of the slash... thus becoming good friends of gay men.

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8: Since straight men are often turned on by lesbian erotica, why not straight women being turned on by gay male erotica?

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1: verb: To take a piss. Mainly english slang.

  * e.g.,  ... Mate i gotta go for a slash 

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1: Fanfiction about two male characters/real people. Forms include RPS (real person slash), and bandslash.

  * e.g.,  ... the best slash I'll ever read is pete/carl from the libertines. *nod* 

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1: To Urinate, To take a piss.

  * e.g.,  ... I'm busting for a slash! I'm gonna take a slash! 

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2: Australian Surf Culture.

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1: Usually in fanfiction, a pairing that is homosexual, although slash is rarely applied to yuri/lesbian pairings.

  * e.g.,  ... I'm a big fan of slash, but I don't really like slash of real people. 

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2: The word 'slash' comes from Star Trek fandom. The original slash pairing was Kirk/Spock, which was abbreviated K/S, and then ended up just being called 'slash' after its punctuation mark. After that, other male/male pairings (in Trek, and in other fandoms soon after) also became known as slash.

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1: In fan communities, the pairing of two male characters as sexual partners (feminine equivalent: femmeslash). The term does not refer to male characters who are homosexual and involved with another male character in canon.

  * e.g.,  ... "Ohmigod, I just found, like, the best slash fanfic ever! Harry/Draco AND Sirius/Remus!" 

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2: Slash refers to any non-canon male/male pairing. Its most popular subgroup, yaoi, refers specifically to such pairings in anime and manga fandom.

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3: Inexplicably popular, especially on the Internet, especially among teenage girls.