often attributive
: one that slashes
especially
: a person who mutilates or kills with an edged blade
a slasher film
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The Mavericks faced some significant public criticism over this decision, with many arguing Flagg would be more effective as an off-ball slasher.
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Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The teen slasher is reinvented yet again, with an eye toward diversity and mythology.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The Nuggets use him as a cutter, a screener in inverted pick-and-rolls, a slasher and a secondary ball-handler.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
The character work elevates this far above your usual slasher or whodunit, and has a lot to say about the threat of solitude always darkening the edges of old age.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
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Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
The teen slasher is reinvented yet again, with an eye toward diversity and mythology.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
The Nuggets use him as a cutter, a screener in inverted pick-and-rolls, a slasher and a secondary ball-handler.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
The character work elevates this far above your usual slasher or whodunit, and has a lot to say about the threat of solitude always darkening the edges of old age.
—Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for slasher
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“Slasher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slasher. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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