Today's slang word of the day is slasher. Click here to vote on usage, vulgarity, etc.
adjective
- containing large amounts of horror violence.
I rented a great slasher film.
noun
- nickname for a surgeon, used by doctors in the UK.
Thus rheumatology, considered by hard-pressed juniors one of the less busy specialties, becomes "rheumaholiday", the "Freud Squad" are psychiatrists, and "Gassers" and "Slashers" are anaesthetists and general surgeons respectively.
-- "Doctor slang is a dying art", BBC News, 18 August 2003
-- Walter (waltergr@aol.com)
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