different between flasher vs slasher

English

Etymology

flash +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ??(r)

Noun

flasher (plural flashers)

1. Anything that flashes, especially a device that switches a light on and off.
2. (automotive) An indicator or turn signal.
3. (obsolete) Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
   • 1795, Hester Piozzi, Thraliana, 17 March:

     Mr Yorke of D'Affrenalli has been introduced to me as a Wit & a Flasher: it was supposed that we were to admire one another's Abilities,—but I fancy the Project failed on both Sides […] .

4. (slang) Someone who exposes themselves indecently; someone who ‘flashes’ their genitals.

Synonyms

• (person): exhibitionist

Translations

Anagrams

• halfers, reflash

French

Etymology

From English flash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fla.?e/

Verb

flasher

1. to flash (of a light, to have intermittent periods on and off)
2. to flash (of a camera, to use flash photography)
3. to flash (of a vehicle, to be caught on camera speeding)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “flasher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

slash +? -er

Noun

slasher (plural slashers)

1. One who slashes.
2. A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
3. (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence. A slasher movie
4. One who self-injures by cutting.
5. A tool for cutting undergrowth.
6. (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
   • 2002, Christopher Noxon, "What to do about Harry Potter Porn?", The Vancouver Sun, 21 December 2002, page 96:

     With the success of the first film and the third one already in production, Warner Bros. is more likely to greet Harry Potter slashers with more takedown orders than tolerance.

   • 2006, Francesca Coppa, "Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (ed. Kristina Busse), page 49:

     The same aspects that made buddy shows attractive to relationship-oriented fans also made them attractive to slashers; the fact that these shows were set in an era of tight jeans and unbuttoned shirts, and of the loosening of formerly strict standards of acceptable male behavior, only provided additional evidence for homoerotic interpretation.

   • 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 Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 182:

     In other words denied their own voice by a conservative misogynist culture, the original female slashers and vidders needed male characters as surrogates to express their own identity and desires.

Derived terms

• slasher movie
• femslasher

Coordinate terms

• (slash fiction): shipper

Translations

Anagrams

• Haslers, Hassler, Lashers, ashlers, halsers, hassler, lashers

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cine slasher

Etymology

English slasher

Noun

slasher m (plural slashers)

1. slasher (horror subgenre)

Hypernyms

• cine de terror