slasher
noun/slæʃər/
Frequency rank: #14,122 most common English word
Meaning
a type of horror movie featuring a killer who attacks victims with a sharp weapon; also, a person who slashes.
Example sentence
My friends and I stayed up all night watching slasher films.
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