stan

What it means

An extremely devoted, obsessive fan of a celebrity, artist, or thing. It works as a verb too, so to 'stan' someone is to support them intensely (as in 'we stan a queen').

Examples

• She's a hardcore Taylor Swift stan with the tattoo to prove it.
• I stan a multi-talented icon, she can do no wrong.
• The stans flooded the comments defending him instantly.
• We stan, period, that performance was everything.

Where it comes from

Coined by Eminem's 2000 song 'Stan' about an obsessive fan; it evolved on Twitter and Tumblr into general fandom slang by the 2010s, spawning huge online 'stan' communities.

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