slash fiction

== English == === Etymology === From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved. === Pronunciation === === Noun === slash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural slash fictions) (uncountable) A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men). (countable) A work in the genre of slash fiction ==== Synonyms ==== slash slashfic ==== Hyponyms ==== (female/female slash): altfic, femslash, f/f slash (male/male slash): boyslash, m/m slash ==== Coordinate terms ==== shipfic ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === Bury, Rhiannon (2006), “A Critical Eye for the Queer Text: Reading and Writing Slash Fiction on (the) Line”, in The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 1151–1167