Jikook

Jikook

English

Etymology

Blend of Jimin +‎ Jungkook.

Proper noun

Jikook

1. (fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of Park Ji-min and Jeon Jung-kook of the K-pop boy band BTS.
   • 2018, Jessica Lindsay, "What does shipping mean when people aren’t talking about ships?", Metro (UK), 12 September 2018:

     For example, there are portmanteaus of each and every BTS member combination, with fans hoping that JiKook (Jimin and Jungkook) or V-Hope (V and J-Hope) will become a thing.

   • 2019, Palmer Haasch, "Community, Soul-Searching and Pleasure: The Significance of Real Person Fanfiction in BTS Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, page 13:

     "JiKook," the pairing of Korean boy band BTS members Jeon Jeong-guk and Park Ji-min, is the fourth most popular ship despite the fact that neither pairing is together in real life.

   • 2019, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw & Michelle Jaworski, "The 10 most influential fandoms of the 2010s", The Daily Dot, 26 December 2019;

     (By far the most popular BTS ship is Jikook, which pairs Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook together.)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jikook.