"fanspeak" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fæn.spiːk/
enPR: fănspēk Etymology: fan + -speak, modeled after Newspeak. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fan|speak}} fan + -speak, {{m|en|Newspeak}} Newspeak Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} fanspeak (uncountable)
  1. (informal) The jargon used by science fiction fans. Tags: informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Fandom, Jargon
    Sense id: en-fanspeak-en-noun-2flFMZo3 Disambiguation of Fandom: 63 37 Disambiguation of Jargon: 53 47
  2. (by extension, informal) The jargon used by fans of any genre of fiction or popular culture in general. Tags: broadly, informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Jargon
    Sense id: en-fanspeak-en-noun-rDgpT~DX Disambiguation of Jargon: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -speak Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -speak: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: geekspeak, nerdspeak

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