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sports fans

sports fans is the plural of sports fan.

Meaning of sports fan

Noun

sports fan (plural sports fans)

  1. A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.
    • Patrick: "Peter, you shouldn't encourage people to be fat. Fat people are immoral."
      Peter: "How do you figure, sports fan?"
      Patrick: "They're just bad, like that Jackie Gleason."2005 November 27, Chris Sheridan, “The Fat Guy Strangler”, in Family Guy, season 4, episode 17, production code 4ACX20
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.

Questions about sports fans

What is sports fans the plural of?
Sports fans is the plural of sports fan.

Words near sports fans in the dictionary

  1. sports drink
  2. sports drinks
  3. sports entertainment
  4. sports entertainments
  5. sports fan
  6. sports fans
  7. sports field
  8. sports fields
  9. sports final
  10. sports finals
  11. sports game

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