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healslut

healslut noun: a person who plays a healer-class character in a multiplayer video game as part of a BDSM dynamic in which they assume the submissive role and provide healing to a dominant tank.

Noun

healslut (plural healsluts)

  1. (slang, vulgar) A person who plays a healer-class character in a multiplayer video game as part of a BDSM dynamic in which they assume the submissive role and provide healing to a dominant tank.
    • The healslut community, in essence, performs an overall action of what J.L Barnes (2015) deems “imaginative resistance” that exists within fandoms, particularly when there appears to be a schism between what characters are claimed to be and what they actually do in the text (79). […] Here, avenues...2019 November 6, Kyle Bohunicky, Jordan Youngblood, “The Pro Strats of Healsluts: Overwatch, Sexuality, and Perverting the Mechanics of Play”, in Wider Screen, volume 22, numbers 1-2, archived from...
    • Overwatch provides the player with numerous "emotes"–dances, gestures, graffitilike stamps to apply to walls and floors–that allow them to interact in nonviolent ways with other players (indeed, there is a small but passionate BDSM community that has repurposed avatars and emotes so they can "get...2022, Michael Mark Chemers, Mike Sell, Systemic Dramaturgy A Handbook for the Digital Age, page 171

Forms of healslut

pluralhealsluts

Origin of healslut

From heal + slut.

Questions about healslut

What does healslut mean?
Healslut means a person who plays a healer-class character in a multiplayer video game as part of a BDSM dynamic in which they assume the submissive role and provide healing to a dominant tank.
What part of speech is healslut?
Healslut is a noun.
What is the plural of healslut?
The plural of healslut is healsluts.

Words near healslut in the dictionary

  1. heals
  2. heals over
  3. heals up
  4. healsfang
  5. healsfangs
  6. healslut
  7. healsluts
  8. healsome
  9. health
  10. health activation
  11. health and fitness age

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