slasher
slasher Lexical Profile
slasher Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A subgenre of horror film or a specific movie within it that typically features a relentless, often masked antagonist who stalks and attacks a group of victims.
"The film festival included a retrospective on classic late-twentieth-century slashers and their influence on modern suspense cinema."
A person or thing that cuts, reduces, or slashes something, such as prices, budgets, or physical materials.
"The newly appointed executive gained a reputation as a ruthless budget slasher during the company's restructuring phase."
A long-handled agricultural hand tool with a curved blade used for clearing brushwood, hedges, and thick undergrowth, or a mechanical rotary mower attached to a tractor for clearing rough pasture.
"The groundskeeper used a heavy-duty tractor-mounted slasher to clear the overgrown weeds along the boundary fence."