49 definitions by The Doctor

n. The person who is a victim of a computer hacker.
v. The past tense of "hack" with regard to computers.

In craps (dice), slang term for throwing two sixes (at total of twelve).

a pregnant camel in the sahara

The microcosm made up of people who are fans of a fiction genre, or of a subgenre, who have their own clubs, conventions and amateur magazines (fanzines), dating back (in some cases) to the early 1930s. Some of these are overlapping. Star Trek fandom, for example, started in science fiction fandom and eventually became a separate fandom on its own. Comics fandom and even rock (music) fandom also started there before becoming separate entities.

1. Fiction written by fans about an extant fictional universe.
2. Amateur fiction of any kind published in fanzines.

Imagining masturbation.

Abbreviation for an amateur "fan magazine." See also fanzine. Outside of sf fandom, "fan magazines" were magazines published in the 1930s and 1940s about the stars of movies.