Lostaway

Noun

Lostaway (plural Lostaways)

1. (slang) A fan of the television series Lost.
   • Die-hard "Lostaways" and other collectors will get the chance to purchase props and costumes from the series during a weekend auction at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar.2010 August 19, “A big find for `Lost' fans: Items from hit show will be auctioned off”, in Daily News, Los Angeles
   • The character of Rose Henderson spurns us diehard Lostaways to confront the same issue week after week as we throw ourselves onto the living room couch and join our friends on the island: […]2011, Daniel B. Gallagher, “Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason”, in William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson, editors, Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to...
2. (slang) One of the fictional characters stranded on the mysterious island on the television show Lost.
   • At the end of the previous episode, the Lostaways discovered a crate full of food and supplies that seems to have literally appeared out of thin air, […]2006, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide, ECW Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 284
   • We get a little of that in the travel of a frame story, too, romantic or not–don't think there wasn't flirting going on even among the storytellers of the Decameron, and we've all seen the pairings, possible pairings, and former pairings of the Lostaways.2006, Evelyn Vaughn, “Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed?”, in Orson Scott Card, editor, Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting over in J. J. Abrams, Lost , BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 59