apan

See also: apán

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

APA (amateur press association) + -n (of or pertaining to)

Noun

apan (plural apans)

  1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
    • 1990 August 1, Lillian, Guy, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa, number 8, page 4:
      The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.
    • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet, retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:
      Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).
    • 2006 May 1, Katz, Arnie, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon, volume 1, number 4:
      I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

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Cebuano

Etymology

Short for apanapan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧pan

Noun

apan

  1. A grasshopper.

Synonyms


Finnish

Verb

apan

  1. First-person singular indicative present form of appaa.

Anagrams


Hiligaynon

Noun

apán

  1. an adult locust

Malay

Noun

apan

  1. (dialectal, Sambas) pan

Pipil

Etymology

From ā- ("water") + -pan (locative).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈaːpaŋ/

Noun

āpan (plural ajāpan)

  1. river
    Yajket mawiltiat tik ne apan ne pipilmet
    The children went to bathe in the river

Quechua

Verb

apan

  1. third-person singular present indicative of apay

Swedish

Noun

apan

  1. definite singular of apa

Tagakaulu Kalagan

Noun

apan

  1. grasshopper

Waray-Waray

Noun

apán

  1. grasshopper
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