Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.
Hannibal went further though, elevating the subtext into text by making Hannigram arguably canon by the end of season 3.
2021, Kirsty Worrow, “My Darling Cannibal: The Mechanics of Perverse Allegiance in Hannibal”, in Kyle A. Moody, Nicholas A. Yanes, editors, Hannibal for Dinner: Essays on America's Favorite Cannibal on Television, page 412 more examples
Indeed, "Fannibals" have already crossed the line from observation to active participation with online campaigns to save the show and even the production of two bound volumes of "Hannigram" fanfiction.
2019, Kara M. French, “Bedelia Du Maurier: Hannibal's Femme Fatale and Final Girl”, in EJ Nielsen, Kavita Mudan Finn, editors, Becoming: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal, page 189At the time of writing, the most popular Hannibal fic, by a large margin, describes itself as "a post-canon Hannigram fix-it fic."
2024, Jamie MacGregor, “"'This is all I ever wanted for You, Will. For both of us.' 'It's beautiful.': Hannibal Post-Canon Fics and Queer Futurity”, in Katlin Tonti, editor, Fix-It Fics: Challenging the Status Quo through Fan Fiction, page 116Synonyms: Murder Husbands
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.
Origin
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Hannigram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hannigram
“Hannigram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hannigram. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Hannigram,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Hannigram.
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