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personalzine

personalzine noun: a fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.

Noun

personalzine (plural personalzines)

  1. (slang) A fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.
    • Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- hell, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets. But he put it out so frequently, sometimes three or four a month, that it had generated its own momentum. Soon he was printing letters, and it was a dozen pages. Some of the...1986 November, Ted White, “The Purple Fields of Fanac”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 21
    • Gegenschein is a personalzine, so I don't accept reader's contributions ... however, when an Elder Ghod of fandom unexpectedly sends me an article, I can easily be persuaded to make an exception.1992 October, Eric Lindsay, Gegenschein, number 65
    Synonyms:
    perzine

Examples of personalzine in a sentence

  • Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- hell, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets.1986 November, Ted White, “The Purple Fields of Fanac”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 21:
  • […] MUSICZINES, PERSONALZINES, PUNKZINES, COMICZINES OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.2002, Aaron Cometbus, Despite Everything: A Cometbus Omnibus, page 133:

Synonyms of personalzine

Forms of personalzine

pluralpersonalzines

Origin of personalzine

From personal + zine.

Questions about personalzine

What does personalzine mean?
Personalzine means a fanzine produced by a single person, often covering that person's own interests and activities.
How do you use personalzine in a sentence?
Vegas put out VAGUE, a fanzine that had started out as a personalzine -- hell, a letter-substitute, one or two sheets.
What part of speech is personalzine?
Personalzine is a noun.
What is the plural of personalzine?
The plural of personalzine is personalzines.

Words near personalzine in the dictionary

  1. personally attacks
  2. personalness
  3. personals
  4. personalties
  5. personalty
  6. personalzine
  7. personalzines
  8. personas
  9. personas non grata
  10. personate
  11. personated

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