Meanings
- slanguncountablelifestyleSlash fan fiction involving minor characters.
Are you going to leave chanslash and shotakon for another discussion?
2002 December 23, Stacey, “Re: The little things (CoS movie--spoilers!)”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)2 more examples
Hm, from where I originally heard, it struck a Harry Potter list-owner first. Her entire account was deleted. Some say it's because one of the groups she owned was an HP chanslash one.
2003 August 23, Dina Lerret, “Re: Yahoo TOSing slash lists -- Cause for concern”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet)Slash is subdivided into subcategories, a partial list of which might include yaoi (slash involving manga and anime characters), chanslash (explicit slash involving minor characters, such as Harry/Draco or Snape/Harry (also known as Drarry and Snarry, respectively) from the Harry Potter universe), […]
2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, pages 10–11
Origin
From Japanese ちゃん (chan), a familiar suffix commonly affixed to the names of children, and slash.
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chanslash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chanslash
“chanslash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chanslash. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chanslash,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chanslash.
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