Slang dictionary
heal slut
[heel sluht]
What does heal slut mean?
Heal slut is a humorous but vulgar term for healer characters in video 亚洲网紅露点 or the players controlling them.
Where does heal slut come from?
In many video 亚洲网紅露点, there are characters or classes (e.g., a priest or cleric) who specialize in healing. Rather than kill players of opposing teams, the role of healers is to keep their teammates alive.
Not everyone is a fan of healers, and so we see the insult听heal slut听(as if they are a whore for ministrations) for them as early as 2011. It appeared in听a tweet describing the Medic, a healer character from the video game Team Fortress 2, in response to a comic that pointed out that the Medic healed “most of the server.”
Photo: cuddlyxmedics: Medic, you heal slut. http://tumblr.com/x1j1qmbp9t
— Cat Bountry (@catbountry)
Heal slut听spread in 2015, when it took off on 4chan boards about healing classes in 亚洲网紅露点 like听World of Warcraft and League of Legends.
The phrase is pointed and crude for multiple reasons. First, in many video 亚洲网紅露点, the healer is either female or a lightly-armored, non-muscular man. Second, a healer’s job is to keep every person on the team alive, so they are expected to heal as many different people as possible as often as they can (as if sluttishly so). Finally, the characters most often healed are stronger, more durable characters sometimes referred to as tanks. In most video 亚洲网紅露点, tank听characters are large, burly men. Tasteless jokes seem rarely missed by the likes of 4chan, the sexual insult of the heal slut听included.
A final aspect of heal slut is the idea that some persons playing a healer character are aroused by submitting to tanks or an abusive team who rarely appreciates their important role.
i was 19 when i realized i was a filthy heal slut. i'm almost 21 and nothing has changed
— Elisa (@ELISABXTCH)
This fetish appears to be ironic, but you never know with 4chan, and the (very NSFW) 2016 subreddit /r/HealSluts is supposedly based around the sexual thrill of being a heal slut.
Get you a heal slut like
— Diamond (@diamondbutters)
Examples of heal slut
Who uses heal slut?
Heal slut appears听most听commonly appear on game-themed message board sites like 4chan and Reddit, ironically or otherwise.
HE HEALS ME ALL THE TIME. HE鈥橲 MY HEAL SLUT
— ~ 馃挋鉁˙lueBerry馃敎PAX_South!!!鉁煉檦 (@EthanWeebberry)
I'm such a heal slut that I will heal strangers just because.
— Liz, good girl馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛馃寛 (@x3n0nlights)
Use of the term is often accompanied by sexually explicit greentext stories or pornographic images featuring the character Mercy from the video game听Overwatch.
Note that heal slut may be considered sexist, given its gendered application of the insult slut and its use alongside other sexist language or content.
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of heal slut like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of heal slut that will help our users expand their word mastery.