fanzine

noun
/ˈfænˌziːn/

Etymology

Blend of fan + magazine. Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag.

  1. derived from مَخَازِن
  2. derived from magazzino
  3. derived from magasin
  4. inherited from magasyne
  5. compounded as fanzine — “fan + magazine

Definitions

  1. A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common…

    A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.

    • I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.
    • Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fanzine. 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