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aca/fan

aca/fan is the alternative form of acafan.

Meaning of acafan

Noun

acafan (plural acafans or acafen)

  1. (slang) An academic who self-identifies as a member of fandom.
    • [Flourish] Klink: Your story about the band member makes me think about fans' reactions to the academic articles they themselves are in. That's a productive comparison, I think - "fans are to acafen the way that band members are to RPF writers" - because I think it opens the door to discussing the...2012, Lynn Zubernis, Katherine Larsen, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 47

Forms of aca/fan

pluralaca/fans
pluralaca/fen

Questions about aca/fan

What is aca/fan the alternative form of?
Aca/fan is the alternative form of acafan.

Words near aca/fan in the dictionary

  1. aca-fan
  2. aca-fandom
  3. aca-fandoms
  4. aca-fans
  5. aca-fen
  6. aca/fan
  7. aca/fans
  8. aca/fen
  9. ACAAN
  10. ACAB
  11. acacatechin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aca/fan (page history and authors); acafan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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