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stan

/stæn/ · noun

Meaning

  1. (sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
  2. To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
  3. One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

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Sources

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