h/c
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Initialism of hot and cold (water).
adj
Alternative letter-case form of h/c.
Example Sentences
- "I have never heard this given as a reason for writing H/C fanfic from those authors I have met or spoken to ... certainly, in my case, I am not aware of using my fanfic to work out personal problems, even though much of what I have written falls into the H/C category."
- "Both h/c (hurt/comfort stories, in which one or both members of a pair are injured in some way, creating emotional closeness) and AU (alternate universe stories, in which the characters are taken out of the source text and placed in a different time or place) are subgenres in their own right, but are also commonly found as elements in slash, het (heterosexual relationship), and gen (nonsexual, or general audience) stories."
- "In boys' love and slash, h/c is also a way to add a homoerotic dimension to an otherwise ostensibly homosocial relationship."