Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2017: Week 37

Slash is a type of fanwork in which two (or more) characters of the same sex or gender are placed in a sexual or romantic situation with each other. Slash can also be a verb; to slash is to create a slash fanwork or to interpret the chemistry between the characters in the source text as homoerotic. The adjective form is slashy.

Slash more commonly refers to male/male pairings, with femslash being used more often to refer to female/female scenarios.