"A/B/O" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Initialism of alpha, beta, and omega.",
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          "name": "Omegaverse",
          "orig": "en:Omegaverse",
          "parents": [
            "Erotic literature",
            "Fan fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Fiction",
            "Literary genres",
            "Sex",
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            "Nature",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kristina Busse, \"Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse\", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317",
          "text": "Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Marianne Gunderson, \"What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction\", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103",
          "text": "It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase the stakes of intimacy and trust in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Milena Popova, \"‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent\", Porn Studies",
          "text": "What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own lives and interpersonal relationships, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction (originating in fan fiction) in which humanity has a dominance hierarchy based on stereotypical wolf pack dynamics, consisting of alphas (dominants), omegas (submissives), and betas (neutrals)."
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        [
          "erotic",
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          "speculative fiction",
          "speculative fiction"
        ],
        [
          "fan fiction",
          "fan fiction"
        ],
        [
          "dominance",
          "dominance"
        ],
        [
          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
        ],
        [
          "wolf pack",
          "wolf pack"
        ],
        [
          "alpha",
          "alpha"
        ],
        [
          "dominant",
          "dominant"
        ],
        [
          "omega",
          "omega"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ],
        [
          "beta",
          "beta"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction (originating in fan fiction) in which humanity has a dominance hierarchy based on stereotypical wolf pack dynamics, consisting of alphas (dominants), omegas (submissives), and betas (neutrals)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "omegaverse"
        }
      ],
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        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Omegaverse"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "A/B/O"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Initialism of alpha, beta, and omega.",
  "forms": [
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      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kristina Busse, \"Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse\", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317",
          "text": "Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Marianne Gunderson, \"What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction\", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103",
          "text": "It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase the stakes of intimacy and trust in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Milena Popova, \"‘Dogfuck rapeworld’: Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent\", Porn Studies",
          "text": "What is interesting is how A/B/O stories explore these sexual scripts, and how the characters in them negotiate the disjunctures between the dominant scripts and their desires in their own lives and interpersonal relationships, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction (originating in fan fiction) in which humanity has a dominance hierarchy based on stereotypical wolf pack dynamics, consisting of alphas (dominants), omegas (submissives), and betas (neutrals)."
      ],
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        ],
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          "hierarchy",
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        ],
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          "alpha",
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        ],
        [
          "dominant",
          "dominant"
        ],
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          "omega",
          "omega"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ],
        [
          "beta",
          "beta"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(fandom slang) A subgenre of erotic speculative fiction (originating in fan fiction) in which humanity has a dominance hierarchy based on stereotypical wolf pack dynamics, consisting of alphas (dominants), omegas (submissives), and betas (neutrals)."
      ],
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Omegaverse"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "omegaverse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "A/B/O"
}