apan

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Definition of apan

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noun

(slang)A member of an amateur press association.

“The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.”
“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).”
“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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noun

(slang)A member of an amateur press association.

“The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.”
“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).”
“I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.”
(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of apan.

“The 19-year-old fresh-faced kid in the Browncoat costume talking about Harry Turtledove in the consuite is every bit as much a fan as the APAn cranking a mimeograph and pondering the right and wrong of the Breendoggle.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From APA (“amateur press association”) + -n (“of or pertaining to”).

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