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Jolanta commented on the word slash
You're missing the usage among fanfiction writers. "Slash" there denotes the category of fanfic that brings characters together as lovers -- common pairings are Snape and Harry in Harry Potter fanfic, Kirk and Spock in Star Trek fanfic, Sheppard and McKay in Stargate: Atlantis fanfic. The term derives, I believe, from the typographical / -- people often write "Snape/Harry" or "K/S," for example.
Slash in this sense is also a verb (to slash Characters A and B). And it appears in compounds such as femslash (slash fic that pairs women; the "default" of slash is male/male pairings).
June 8, 2009