Destiel

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proper noun

The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.

    All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

    2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8
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    His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.

    2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 204

    I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.

    2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21

Origin

Blend of Dean + Castiel.

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APA

Destiel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Destiel

MLA

“Destiel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Destiel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Destiel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Destiel.

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