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A/B/O

A/B/O noun: synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”).

Noun

A/B/O (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”).
    • 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).2013, Kristina Busse, “Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 317
    • 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.2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103
    Synonyms:
    omegaverse

Synonyms of A/B/O

Origin of A/B/O

Initialism of alpha, beta, and omega.

Questions about A/B/O

What does A/B/O mean?
A/B/O means synonym of omegaverse (“subgenre of erotic speculative fiction”).
What part of speech is A/B/O?
A/B/O is a noun.

Words near A/B/O in the dictionary

  1. a/a
  2. A/B
  3. A/B test
  4. A/B testing
  5. A/B tests
  6. A/B/O
  7. a/c
  8. a/cs
  9. A/G
  10. a/k/a
  11. A/N

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