Gafiation

Quick meaning: Gafiation is a noun meaning (dated, fandom slang) The act of gafiating; a beginning or end of involvement in fandom.

Meaning

(dated, fandom slang) The act of gafiating; a beginning or end of involvement in fandom.

More Meanings

1. (dated, fandom slang) The state or result of having gafiated; having entered or exited fandom.

Example Sentences

Three or four issues of an OO, Night Action, were produced, but general gafiation ruined plans for what was essentially a DC-Michigan coalition.

Superfan Hughes recently printed a new Willis column presenting the Irish Legend's return to fandom, at the 1976 Eastercon, after an 11-year gafiation.

The average age of fans probably advanced with the progress of the decade, because many fans remained active right through it, to counterbalance the rejuvenation created by the gafiation of older fans and the appearance of neofans.

Fifth Transition, from about the beginning of the Korean War to the last of 1951, saw a diffusion of interests in fandom, with a wartime boom in stf coinciding with Campbell's amazing advocacy of crackpottery like Dianetics while the Gafiation of opposition leaders like Rapp and the Insurgents left Tucker's Bloomington News Letter briefly the top fanzine.

Word Forms

• gafiations

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Related dictionary entries include fafiation, gafiate, ungafiate, degafiate, fafiate, fanac.

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