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enemyslash

enemyslash noun: slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.

Noun

enemyslash (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.
    • As an intimatopic 'enemyslash' fic, Harry Potter and the Bound Prince centers on the development of intimacy as expressed through sex and eroticized comfort between two characters that are enemies in the series canon […]2010, Darlene Rose Hampton, "Beyond Resistance: Gender, Performance, and Fannish Practice in Digital Culture", dissertation submitted to the University of Oregon, page 102
    • As a result, Harry Potter fandom again denies well-known theories of slash, as its most popular pairing – Harry/Draco – belongs to the enemyslash category.2010, Sigrid Sindhuber, "Slashing Harry Potter: The phenomenon of border-transgression in fan fiction", thesis submitted to the University of Vienna, page 65

Antonyms of enemyslash

Origin of enemyslash

From enemy + slash.

Questions about enemyslash

What does enemyslash mean?
Enemyslash means slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between adversaries.
What part of speech is enemyslash?
Enemyslash is a noun.

Words near enemyslash in the dictionary

  1. enemyless
  2. enemylessness
  3. enemylike
  4. enemyness
  5. enemyship
  6. enemyslash
  7. EnenKio
  8. eneolithic
  9. enepidermic
  10. energetic
  11. energetic disassemblies

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