trufan

n. a dedicated and loyal follower (of an entertainer, cult, credo, hobby, pastime, genre, etc.) Subjects: English, Entertainment, Technology, Slang

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Citations: 1978 Patricia Byrd American Speech (Spring) “Star Trek Lives: Trekker Slang” p. vol. 53, no. 1, p. 55: 1976 Fisher Strekfan’s Glossary 6 “Trufan: The total fan, one who embraces every aspect of fandom. This has another meaning in SFandom but the single definition has been prevalent in STrekdom so far.” 1983 [csin!cjh] Usenet: net.sf-lovers (Jan. 7) “Re cursing ministers”: I repeat my contention that absence of critical sense is one of the marks of the fringefan, and introduce the corollary (observable from the earliest days of anything recognizable as fandom) that argumentativeness is one of the common denominators of the [trufan] (I hate that term but it carries a useful sense). 1989 Hal Broome Usenet: rec.music.misc (May 14) “Re: Toyah”: “Are there any fans of Toyah out there?”…“A Scottish friend of mine claims to have felt her breasts in concert (is that a tru-fan [tm] or a lecher? no need to answer).” 2003 Cory Doctorow BoingBoing (Sept. 18) “New Haunted Mansion book probably *won’t* suck”: Jeff Baham has interviewed the author, who appears to be a real Mansion trufan who set out to write a comprehensive historical document about the bestest ride the Imagineers ever built.

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