slashy
English
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[edit]slashy (comparative slashier, superlative slashiest)
- Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
- 2008 March 25, Zach Welhouse, “Starring Sephiroth and Some Other Chumps”, in RPGamer[1], archived from the original on 27 December 2008:
- Fans of all things feathered and slashy have the rest of the month to obtain a PSP, if they don't yet have one.
- 2004 March 25, “Pick up those blades and fight”, in Toronto Star[2], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
- 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
- resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
- 2009 June 22, Ted Dziuba, “Opera Software reinvents complete irrelevance”, in The Register[3]:
- 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,
- wet, having wet ground, slushy
- 1962 January 21, “Italy's No. 2 Team Leads In Two-Man Bobsled Meet”, in Baltimore Sun[4], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
- Italy's Rinaldo Ruetti mastered a slashy, water-logged bobsled run today and took a substantial lead in the world two-man championships
- 1940 June 27, “East Bengal Beat Sporting Union Calcutta League Football”, in Indian Express[5]:
- The grounds were slashy, there being a heavy shower in the afternoon. Play with barefoot was difficult.
- making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
- 2002 June 21, Owen Gleiberman, “The Bourne Identity”, in Entertainment Weekly[6], archived from the original on 6 June 2011:
- 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 March 24, Gary Lambrecht, Baltimore Sun[7]:
- "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..."
- darting, running in a zigzag motion
- 2007 January 1, Teddy Greenstein, “2-for-1 promotion ; Michigan-USC winner figures to be preseason No. 1 team in 2007”, in Chicago Tribune[8], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
- "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..."
- of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
- 2007, Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon, page 88:
- 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.
- 1988 May 1, Bill van Siclen, “Bailey's 'realism' is really something else His 'tablescapes' are deceptively simple”, in Providence Journal[9], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:
- 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.
- slushy, very romantic
- (fandom slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.
- 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:
- It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.
- 2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:
- 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) […]
- 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:
- As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slashy.
- 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: