slashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: slashier
form: slashiest
Etymology: From slash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one.
ref: 2008 March 25, Zach Welhouse, “Starring Sephiroth and Some Other Chumps”, in RPGamer, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2008:
text: 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
ref: 2004 March 25, “Pick up those blades and fight”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
glosses: Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
examples: text: 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,
ref: 2009 June 22, Ted Dziuba, “Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance”, in The Register:
glosses: resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
examples: text: Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships
ref: 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:
text: The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult.
ref: 1940 June 27, “East Bengal Beat Sporting Union Calcutta League Football”, in Indian Express:
glosses: wet, having wet ground, slushy
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002 June 21, Owen Gleiberman, “The Bourne Identity”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2011:
text: "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..."
ref: 2002 March 24, Gary Lambrecht, Baltimore Sun:
glosses: making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
examples: text: "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..."
ref: 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:
glosses: darting, running in a zigzag motion
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2007, Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon, page 88:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
glosses: slushy, very romantic
examples: text: It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.
ref: 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
text: 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) […]
ref: 2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:
text: As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]
ref: 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:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.