Dictionary

fankid en · NOUN

Etymology

From fan + kid.

Meanings

1. An enthusiastic or obsessive fan.
   • I’m grateful to creators who build worlds our little fankids have enjoyed for nearly a decade now and will probably continue to love and share for decades to come. 2020, Shauna Holyoak, Kazu Jones and the Comic Book Criminal, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
   • Instead, Marvel regularly uploads digital editions of older comics to its online store for iPad fankids to browse and buy a la carte. 2010, J.D. Biersdorfer, iBooks and ePeriodicals on the iPad: The Mini Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN:
   • The fankids go totally overboard, doing all this research online, re-creating every detail, right down to the brand of soy milk their celebrity keeps in the fridge or the mosaic tiling in the bathroom or the guest lists for their parties. 2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 32:
   • So to all the fangirls, fanboys, and fankids out there who let their geek flags fly and make our community fun and welcoming for all, thank you. 2017, Jen Wilde, “Acknowledgments”, in Queens of Geek, New York, N.Y.: Swoon Reads, →ISBN:
   • These cheeky tykes lined up alongside Laurel, Ankst, Nude, Domino, Wurlitzer Jukebox and dozens more dangerously optimistic music fankids. 2022, Simon Williams, Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label, Nine Eight Books, →ISBN:
   • The anticipation and fan-bonding which [Todd] Hanson writes about are dramatised in the low-budget indie movie Fanboys (Kyle Newman, 2009). […] The metaphor is an obvious one: geeky fankids are the rebellion. 2021, Miles Booy, Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
   • My Fangirls Going Rogue co-host Teresa Delgado proudly admits her best fandom moments were discovered in the prequel trilogy and has become an enthusiastic advocate for fankids. 2016, Tricia Barr, “Fangirls flying high!”, in The Best of Star Wars Insider, volume 4, Titan, →ISBN, page 103:

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