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Destiel

Destiel proper noun: the ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.

Proper noun

Destiel

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
    • His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press...
    • All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

Origin of Destiel

Blend of Dean + Castiel.

Questions about Destiel

What does Destiel mean?
Destiel means the ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
What part of speech is Destiel?
Destiel is a proper noun.

Words near Destiel in the dictionary

  1. desthiobiotinylation
  2. desticker
  3. destickered
  4. destickering
  5. destickers
  6. Destiel
  7. destigmatisation
  8. destigmatise
  9. destigmatised
  10. destigmatises
  11. destigmatising

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