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fanwanking

fanwanking is the present participle and gerund of fanwank.

Meaning of fanwank

Verb

fanwank (third-person singular simple present fanwanks, present participle fanwanking, simple past and past participle fanwanked)

  1. (slang) Of fans, to invent explanations to gloss over mistakes in continuity.
    • See above on Charlie's Angels. They never seemed to have lives of any sort and weren't interesting to me; they always seemed like soft porn for the guys, but a lot of girls fanwanked and fanficced them into more, so I guess they could qualify.2005 March 9, him...@animail.net, “Re: First Time Buffy Watcher”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet)

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Questions about fanwanking

What is fanwanking the present participle and gerund of?
Fanwanking is the present participle and gerund of fanwank.

Words near fanwanking in the dictionary

  1. fanvidders
  2. fanvids
  3. fanwank
  4. fanwanked
  5. fanwankery
  6. fanwanking
  7. fanwanks
  8. fanwar
  9. fanware
  10. fanwars
  11. fanwear

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanwanking (page history and authors); fanwank (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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