slasher
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- noun
- /ˈslæʃər/
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- Residents are terrified after hearing reports of a slasher targeting unsuspecting individuals at night.
Examples
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A masked slasher is at large on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
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A victim of somebody called the Westside Slasher!
Fiction book (1992) -
- Do you really think it's the slasher?
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I'm a slasher and I must be stopped.
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I'm a mad slasher, I kill people.
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This guy might be the Westside Slasher!
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"It looks like the work of the Westside Slasher," a spokesman for the police department had informed the press.
Fiction book (1990) -
Last night, a man thought to be the long sought after slasher was surrounded by police, only to escape in a burst of new killings that left four officers dead and a police department in shock.
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The police arrested a suspect believed to be a slasher who attacked two people with a knife.
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A notorious slasher is rumored to be on the loose, prompting the city to issue a warning to its citizens.
Synonyms
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9.6
A murderer who cuts and badly hurts people with a knife
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6.3
A person who hurts someone with a knife or other sharp object
A person who cuts or wounds someone with a knife
A person who attacks or hurts someone with a knife
A man who uses a knife to hurt or threaten other people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Slasher comes from slash 'to cut' together with the ending -er that makes 'one who does' (as in baker). So a slasher here means a person who attacks by cutting or slashing others.