noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of fanfic
First recorded in 1975–80; shortening of fan fiction ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Alas, imagining is all we can do now, since all further adventures for Carrie and company will take place in our heads and fanfic forums.
From Salon
Alas, imagining is all we can do now, since all further adventures for Carrie and company will take place in our heads and fanfic forums.
From Salon
Like Lara Jean Song Covey, the teen heroine of her 2014 novel “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” she liked baking and books and penning fanfic of herself and her friends.
From Los Angeles Times
She believes many of the stigmas that keep the writers of fanfic in clandestine operations on spaces like Tumblr is fear of judgment from those outside of fandom and elitism in the literary world.
From Salon
I hadn't set out to become a fanfic writer or to host a website.
From Salon
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