SanSan

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proper noun

The ship of characters Sandor Clegane and Sansa Stark from the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.

Scrabble 6

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proper noun
  1. slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Sandor Clegane and Sansa Stark from the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones.

    Though, like the majority of other SanSan shippers, I wanted them to get together later, when Sansa was older.

    2025, Brooklyn Ann, “Author's Note”, in To Wed a Warrior, unnumbered page
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    To ao3 Sansan shippers — if y'all hadn't reacted the way you did to my Buffy AU, I never would have thought to write a book.

    2015, Leah Williams, “Acknowledgements”, in The Alchemy of Being Fourteen, page 316

    To reinforce those traditionally romantic elements as well as the naturalness of the coupling, many SanSan versions evoke the imagery of Pre-Raphaelite or art nouveau fairy tales, in which the couple embraces in the forest, vines swirling elaborately all around.

    2017, Beth Walker, “A Fan's Got to Have a Code: Evolving Perspectives on the Hound's Violence and Sexuality”, in Kavita Mudan Finn, editor, Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones, page 106

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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