Trekkie
Americannoun
plural
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Full disclosure, I am not a Trekkie, Trekker or any iteration.
From Washington Times • Oct. 10, 2022
And in a 2019 interview with The New York Times, the self-described Trekkie revealed she's a huge fan of the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Shattered" and its leading lady, Kate Mulgrew's Captain Janeway.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022
Seems like neither Trekkie is living up to the show’s live-long-and-prosper credo.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021
And every Halloween we would go trick-or-treating together, always making sure to visit the Trekkie couple on Grennan Drive first, lest they run out of full-size Oh Henry bars.
From New York Times • May 14, 2021
Expecting some eager, socially awkward adolescent, Nichols instead found herself face-to-face with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: King was a Trekkie!
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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