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The microcosm made up of people who are fans of a fiction genre, or of a subgenre, who have their own clubs, conventions and amateur magazines (fanzines), dating back (in some cases) to the early 1930s. Some of these are overlapping. Star Trek fandom, for example, started in science fiction fandom and eventually became a separate fandom on its own. Comics fandom and even rock (music) fandom also started there before becoming separate entities.
Harry published one of the best fanzines in fandom back in the 1930s.
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Vietnamese word used to describe former Vietcong who were helping U.S. forces.
Don't shoot her -- she's a chu-hoi.
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Term used to describe attempts, usually by kids, to recreate in their own back yards the kind of wrestling seen on television. Often done innocent of the fact that tv wrestling is well-planned and executed choroegraphed theatrical stunts, it can and frequently does lead to broken bones and other serious injury.
The poor kid got a concussion when his friend hit him in the head with a chair while they were backyard wrestling.
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In common usage, generally any young hispanic/Mexican-American males perceived (through similarity of garb, haircuts, etc.) to be members of a street gang. Actual gang in Southern California dates back to and rivals the Hell's Angels
"I think those Mexican guys standing on the corner are probably pachucos."
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1. Fiction written by fans about an extant fictional universe.
2. Amateur fiction of any kind published in fanzines.
He wrote a great piece of fan fiction set in the universe of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.
She had a piece of fan fiction published in THE CRUDZINE QUARTERLY.
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Pig Latin for "foe"; often used by urban blacks from about the '40s onwards to alert others to the presence of whites.
"Watch it, here come the oefay."
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A woman who enjoys sex and isn't ashamed to admit it. One who probably reads PLAYGIRL magazines, acts out her own nonharmful fantasies, is concerned with sex as a mutual pleasure and does what it takes to reach her own sexual fulfillment.
She's an unabashed playgirl and proud of it.
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