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fanpol

noun

Etymology

Blend of fan + police.

  1. derived from πολιτεία
  2. derived from polītīa
  3. derived from police
  4. compounded as fanpol — “fan + police”

Definitions

  1. A fan who habitually tries to control others' fannish activity.

    • like EVERY fanpol ever 😭 we be shipping our ships, minding our own businesses, then bAm they act like we did a crime or sumn ☠️
    • I treat those issues very carefully in my writing, only for fanpol to accuse me of writing abuse porn. 🙄
    • fanpols forget to realize that content warnings exist and are typically used.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fanpol. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA