shipfic

shipfic noun: fan fiction revolving around or dedicated to shipping.

Noun

shipfic (countable and uncountable, plural shipfics)

(slang) Fan fiction revolving around or dedicated to shipping.
- Just make sure you don't let me know where your shipfic is available, won't you? <g>2001 December 6, Eva, “Re: 48 Hours: Please God, tell me that's not Daniel's replacement! ***Spoiler***”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet)
- HP slashfic gives me the creeps, not because of homophobia, but more because I get this imperceptible vibe that it's written by people who are obsessed with the movie stars, and in some peculiar way want to debase them because they can't have them. Actually, I shouldn't single out the slashfic....2003 August 20, Chistaya, “Re: and either must die at the hand of the other...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet)

There's plenty of shipfic that gives me this same impression, too.2003 August 20, Chistaya, “Re: and either must die at the hand of the other...”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet):
I've just started looking for DW fanfic to see if there's any Rose-meets-altuniverse-Doctor, and have been drowned in shipfic on places like ff.net (or whatever its^([sic]) called now.2006 September 2, JACUK, “Re: What has happened to DW fanfic...?”, in alt.drwho.creative (Usenet):

plural	shipfics

From ship (“relationship”) + fic.

What does shipfic mean?: Shipfic means fan fiction revolving around or dedicated to shipping.
How do you use shipfic in a sentence?: There's plenty of shipfic that gives me this same impression, too.
What part of speech is shipfic?: Shipfic is a noun.
What is the plural of shipfic?: The plural of shipfic is shipfics.

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