apan

• APAn

APA (“amateur press association”) +‎ -n (“of or pertaining to”)

apan (plural apans)

1. (fandom slang) A member of an amateur press association.
   • 1990 August 1, Lillian, Guy, “'Tis the Season”, in Mimosa‎, number 8, page 4:

     The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland.

   • 1998 October 3, Brown, Rich [Dr Gafia], “Fan Terms (1)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎ (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-13, message-ID <19981003020622.14181.00000964@ng52.aol.com>:

     Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications).

   • 2006 May 1, Katz, Arnie, “The Thin Veneer”, in confuSon‎, volume 1, number 4:

     I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA.

• apahack

• biapan, multiapan, omniapan

• apazine

• Napa, Pana, napa, paan

Short for apanapan.

• Hyphenation: a‧pan

apan

1. A grasshopper.

• (a grasshopper): apan, apanapan

• dulon

apan

1. first-person singular present indicative of appaa

• napa, paan

apán

1. an adult locust

apan

1. (dialectal, Sambas) pan

From at (“water”) +‎ -pan (“upper surface; place/area; time”, locative).

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈapaŋ/

apan (plural ajapan)

1. river

   Yahquet maltiat tic ne apan ne pipilmet

   The children went to bathe in the river

apan

1. third-person singular present indicative of apay

apan

1. definite singular of apa.

apan

1. grasshopper

apán

1. grasshopper

apan

1. river

• apaa, apa, upan, upa, pa

From Middle English apan, from Old English upon, uppon, uppan (“on, upon, up to, against, after, in addition to”).

apan

1. upon

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 23