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  stan

  noun

  an overly enthusiastic fan, especially of a celebrity.
• Stan
  Stan

  noun

  a male given name, form of Stanley.
• -stan
  -stan

  a combining form used humorously to form mock place names, as in Canuckistan, a nickname for Canada, or Nerdistan, any place dominated by high-tech industry and therefore supposedly populated by nerds: sometimes suggesting isolation, backwardness, or lack of freedom.

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Slang dictionary results for stan.

stan

¹ American  

[stan] / stæn /

noun

1. an overly enthusiastic fan, especially of a celebrity.

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verb (used without object)

1. to be an overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something.

   He's my fave rapper but I don't stan for him.

Stan ² American  

[stan] / stæn /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Stanley.

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-stan ³ American  

Sometimes Disparaging.

1. a combining form used humorously to form mock place names, as in Canuckistan, a nickname for Canada, or Nerdistan, any place dominated by high-tech industry and therefore supposedly populated by nerds: sometimes suggesting isolation, backwardness, or lack of freedom.

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Etymology

Origin of stan¹

First recorded in 2005–10; blend of stalk(er) ( def. ) + fan ² ( def. ), influenced by the rapper Eminem's 2000 song “Stan”

Origin of -stan³

First recorded in 1955–60; from Persian -stân “place of (something), place abounding in (something),” akin to Sanskrit sthā́na “location, place”; see also stand ( def. )

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Kristen Baldwin and Tracy Brown, meanwhile stan for less-heralded work: “Look, ‘Landman’ … is a crime against women,” says Baldwin, “but Billy Bob Thornton is objectively excellent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

I didn’t realize until I moved here from the Midwest that Angelenos stan lawyers as if they were celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

But younger generations are increasingly motivated by the idea of brand loyalty that comes with being a stan of the global superstars dominating the charts, whether it’s Taylor Swift, BTS, Billie Eilish, or Beyoncé.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2024

Unfortunately, it's not a good week to be a Kevin stan, but we'll get to that later.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

The time to stan worrying about how things worked was when they broke down or fell apart, and not before.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The fossil market gained momentum after the 2020 sale of Stan, a T.Rex, for $31.8 million to the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Summerween in “Gravity Falls” was more or less the same as regular Halloween — “a night to celebrate pure evil,” as Grunkle Stan puts it gleefully — with trick-or-treating, carved jack-o-watermelons, and a Summerween superstore.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

Ryanair group chairman Stan McCarthy said that in spring, the company's board had "commenced discussions" with O'Leary on his contract.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Stan Haithcock, an annuity agent who bills himself as “Stan the Annuity Man,” has written about these annuity seminars, which he refers to as “bad chicken dinner seminars.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

I nodded and spoke to Stan to finish the order.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon