apan en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English APA Middle English -n English -n English apan From APA (“amateur press association”) + -n (“of or pertaining to”).
Meanings
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(slang) A member of an amateur press association.
I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.
2006 May 14, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon, volume 1, number 4:The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.
1990 August 14, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa, number 8, page 4:Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).
1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), retrieved 13 Jun 2018, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| apans | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| APAn | alternative | lexicographic |