sports fan

noun

A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.

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Meanings

nounsports fan (plural sports fans)

plural sports fans

  1. A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.

    "So listen up, sports fan. You just might learn something. "

    2007 July 11, Jim Schembri, “The Shameless Thrills of Schadenfreude”, in The Age
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    Patrick: "Peter, you shouldn't encourage people to be fat. Fat people are immoral." Peter: "How do you figure, sports fan?" Patrick: "They're just bad, like that Jackie Gleason."

    2005 November 27, Chris Sheridan, “The Fat Guy Strangler”, in Family Guy, season 4, episode 17, production code 4ACX20

    "That's an expression my dad uses a lot. He calls people "sports fan." "How you doing there, sports fan?"

    2013, Anne Serling, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, Citadel Press
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan enthusiastic devotee of sports

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

A term originally used by sportscasters to address the viewing public, later generalized to non-sports contexts.

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APA

sports fan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sports%20fan

MLA

“sports fan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sports%20fan. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sports fan,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sports%20fan.

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