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Femlock

Femlock proper noun: a female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.

Proper noun

Femlock

  1. (slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.
    • Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112
    • As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis...

Forms of Femlock

alternative formfemlock

Origin of Femlock

Blend of fem- + Sherlock.

Questions about Femlock

What does Femlock mean?
Femlock means a female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.
What part of speech is Femlock?
Femlock is a proper noun.

Words near Femlock in the dictionary

  1. feminut
  2. feminuts
  3. FEMIS
  4. femismo
  5. FemLar
  6. Femlock
  7. femmage
  8. femmages
  9. femmagist
  10. femmagists
  11. femme

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