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via matociquala, and with additional assistance from cheshyre:

Dude, we've made the OED.

Advance release of additional material for SLASH n.1

* orig. and chiefly Science Fiction. [After the written form of K/S n.] A subgenre of fiction, originally published in fanzines and now esp. online, in which characters who appear together in popular films or other media are portrayed as having a sexual (esp. homosexual) relationship. Chiefly attrib.

1984 Not Tonight, Spock! Jan. 1 Recommended Book List..to include gay books, other slash zines, or media zines with good K/S stories. 1988 New Yorker 12 Dec. 38/1 ‘Spock enslaved’ is an erotic zine. It's not really a slash book, but it's part of the same movement. 1993 FRA Rev. May-June 64 There is another chapter on slash, or fanzine stories written with the assumption of a homoerotic relationship between male media characters. 1998 R. J. COOMBE Cultural Life of Intellect. Prop. ii. 128 Starsky and Hutch fans worried that public exposure of ‘Slash’ literature would hurt the reputations of stars they regarded with respect and affection.

(This is, as it says in at the top, advance release material - so if you're actually looking at the OED online, you have to check the results from the New Edition. This, er, slowed me down quite a bit, initially, because I get easily confused by the New Edition's clicky-buttons.)