apan

plural apans · alternative APAn

1. slanglifestyleA member of an amateur press association.

   The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.

   1990 August 28, Guy Lillian, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa, number 8, page 4

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   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>

   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 28, Arnie Katz, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon, volume 1, number 4

   Synonyms: apahack

plural APAns

1. alternativeAlternative form of apan.

   The 19-year-old fresh-faced kid in the Browncoat costume talking about Harry Turtledove in the consuite is every bit as much a fan as the APAn cranking a mimeograph and pondering the right and wrong of the Breendoggle.

   2009 March 28, Warren Buff, “LOCs”, in BCSFAzine, number 430, British Columbia Science Fiction Association, page 4