apan
See also: apán
English
Alternative forms
- APAn
Etymology
APA (“amateur press association”) + -n (“of or pertaining to”)
Noun
apan (plural apans)
- (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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Synonyms
- apahack
Hyponyms
- biapan, multiapan, omniapan
Related terms
- apazine
Anagrams
- Napa, Pana, napa, paan
Cebuano
Etymology
Short for apanapan.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧pan
Noun
apan
- A grasshopper.
Synonyms
- (a grasshopper): apan, apanapan
Related terms
- dulon
Finnish
Verb
apan
- First-person singular indicative present form of appaa.
Anagrams
- napa
Hiligaynon
Noun
apán
- an adult locust
Malay
Noun
apan
- (dialectal, Sambas) pan
Pipil
Etymology
From ā- ("water") + -pan (locative).
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈaːpaŋ/
Noun
āpan (plural ajāpan)
- river
- Yajket mawiltiat tik ne apan ne pipilmet
- The children went to bathe in the river
Quechua
Verb
apan
- third-person singular present indicative of apay
Swedish
Noun
apan
- definite singular of apa
Tagakaulu Kalagan
Noun
apan
- grasshopper
Waray-Waray
Noun
apán
- grasshopper