fan mail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fan mail
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Views have slipped, Welker Farms’ most lucrative partnership dried up, and it has been a week since their last piece of fan mail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
But we had a great time making it, and then it went thunk, but now I still get fan mail about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
She received fan mail from around the world, some of the letters are in the exhibition.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026
There’s one of him reading fan mail in the Pirates clubhouse before the game, and others of him embracing his wife, Vera, and his children afterward.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
After having sent him embarrassing fan mail when he was eleven—not that he was about to divulge that piece of information to Dimple.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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