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a fan so devoted the line between love and restraining order gets blurry.
means To be an obsessively enthusiastic fan of someone or something, or the person who is such a fan.
from Born from Eminem's 2000 song "Stan," which tells of an unhinged superfan who writes increasingly desperate letters to the rapper before driving himself and his pregnant girlfriend off a bridge. The name itself was a portmanteau of "stalker" and "fan." The internet took this cautionary tale, stripped away the murder, and turned "stan" into a verb and a badge of honor — eventually earning a dictionary entry of its own.
- origin
- Coined by Eminem's 2000 song about an obsessed fan
- dictionary status
- Added to Merriam-Webster as both noun and verb
- the song
- Stan writes letters, then drives off a bridge
- blend
- Possibly fuses stalker and fan into one word
- verb form
- To stan means aggressively championing your favorite
stan lee — marvel comics creator who co-created spider-man, x-men, and the marvel universe starting in 1961
stan the man musial — st. louis cardinals baseball legend with 3,630 hits, inducted to hall of fame in 1969
stan marsh — main character in south park animated series created by trey parker and matt stone in 1997