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Mystrade

Mystrade proper noun: the ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.

Proper noun

Mystrade

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.
    • The latter include Lestrade (as played by Graves) appreciation and fanfic sites [URLS redacted], a significant strand of (self-evidently, fanon/non-canon) ‘Mystrade’ slash activity, in which Lestrade is imagined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, or even civil partnership, with Mycroft Holmes...2011 November, Claire Monk, “Heritage Film Audiences 2.0: Period Film Audiences and Online Fan Cultures”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 7, number 2, page 474
    • It seems natural in the context of fandom that Mystrade and Wincest are important generic categories, or that Kirk and Spock is an entirely different fictional animal from Kirk/Spock.2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 361

Origin of Mystrade

Blend of Mycroft + Lestrade.

Questions about Mystrade

What does Mystrade mean?
Mystrade means the ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.
What part of speech is Mystrade?
Mystrade is a proper noun.

Words near Mystrade in the dictionary

  1. mystorically
  2. mystories
  3. mystoriographical
  4. mystoriography
  5. mystory
  6. Mystrade
  7. Mystras
  8. Mysuru
  9. Myszka
  10. Myszkas
  11. Mysłowice

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