apan

Alternative forms

• APAn

Etymology

APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”)

Noun

apan (plural apans)

1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
   • 1990 August 1, Lillian, Guy, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎, number 8, page 4:

     The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.

   • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom, Usenet‎, retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:

     Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).

   • 2006 May 1, Katz, Arnie, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎, volume 1, number 4:

     I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

Anagrams

• Napa, napa, Pana, paan

Etymology

Short for apanapan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧pan

Noun

apan

1. A grasshopper.

Verb

apan

1. First-person singular indicative present form of appaa.

Anagrams

• napa

Noun

apán

1. an adult locust

Noun

apan

1. (dialectal, Sambas) pan

Etymology

From ā- ("water") + -pan (locative).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈaːpaŋ/

Noun

āpan (plural ajāpan)

1. river

   Yajket mawiltiat tik ne apan ne pipilmet

   The children went to bathe in the river

Verb

apan

1. third-person singular present indicative of apay

Noun

apan

1. definite singular of apa

Noun

apan

1. grasshopper

Noun

apán

1. grasshopper