Phan

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Blend of Phish +‎ fan.

Phan (plural Phans)

1. (slang) A fan of the American rock band Phish.
   • 2000, "Eclectic crowd catches Phish", The Washington Times, 23 September 2000:

     Phish "phans" compile set lists, take notes on performances and tape-record everything from a section designated for them at each show.

   • 2006, "Wanna try the meaning of life?", Oakland Tribune, 9 July 2006:

     But none were as crazy as this one -- when Phish's tie-dyed "Phans" danced in the aisles, sang along to the music and generally created a scene that recalled the Grateful Dead's glory daze.

   • 2012, Jim Harrington, "Review: Phish closes SF stand on legendary note", Contra Costa Times, 20 August 2012:

     It was the type of evening -- an entirely mesmerizing and moving two-set concert filled with superb musicianship and incredible improvisation -- that made the undying devotion of the "phans" seem quite logical.

• Phishhead

Blend of Phil +‎ Dan.

Phan

1. (fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of YouTube personalities Daniel Howell and Phil Lester.
   • 2018, Emily E. Roach, "The homoerotics of the boyband, queerbaiting and RPF in pop music fandoms", in The Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2018:

     In 2017 Tumblr fandometrics identified that two of the ten most reblogged ships were RPF ships. YouTube vloggers Dan Howell and Phil Lester, whose ship portmanteau is Phan, […]

   • 2019, Jade Tan, "All Aboard The Ship", The High (International School of Lausanne), 24 June 2019, page 10:

     In hindsight, I now regret the errors of my ways (flashback to the time I was embarrassingly obsessed with Phan, the romantic pairing of YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester) as I find it uncomfortable to see people make the mistakes I once did.

   • 2020, Sherin John Francis & Kavya Purushothaman, "Fanfiction: A Study as An Uprising Genre in LIterature", Purakala, Volume 31, Issue 30, May 2020, page 28:

     Fans were so frenzied by the idea of a romantic relationship between them that Phan has always maintained a spot in the top five of Yearly Top Ships on Tumblr for the past three years.

• PANH

Borrowed from Vietnamese Phan.

Phan

1. a surname from Vietnamese

Borrowed from Vietnamese Phan.

Phan m or f

1. a surname from Vietnamese

From Hakka 潘 (pān).

Phan

1. a surname from Hakka

Sino-Vietnamese word from 潘.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [faːn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [faːŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [faːŋ˧˧]
• Homophone: phang

Phan • (潘)

1. a surname from Chinese