fanzine
/ˈfænˌziːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen."
- ""Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along.""
- "Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts."
- "He always had projects ― he makes videos in his apartment, and he and a friend put out a fanzine — but he was all over the map."
- "The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza."
- "“Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”"