stan

Meanings

Noun

• An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
• One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

Verb

• To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).

Related

Narrower meaning words

• sasaeng

Broader meaning words

• megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan

Origin

• From Stan, after the song Stan by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a , but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.