stan
nounEtymology
From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song "Stan" by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker + fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.
Definitions
An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly…
An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
- K-pop stan
- I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]
- I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.
To act as a stan (for)
To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
- We stan a queen.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.
A country, often ex-Soviet, whose name ends with -stan, such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,…
A country, often ex-Soviet, whose name ends with -stan, such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, or Kazakhstan.
- “There are a lot of former Soviet states – a lot of stans.” This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan[…].
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A municipality in southeast Slovenia.
A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.
- Stan Jessop taught at a different school now but lived in the same small 1930s semi-detached as he had done ten years ago. Stan made him sound like an old allotment guy but he was only thirty-six.
- Finally, there’s a Stan Lee fly, in honor of the late Marvel Comics visionary.
A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.
A surname from Romanian.
Alternative letter-case form of stan (a type of superfan)
Alternative letter-case form of stan (country whose name ends with -stan)
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA