Meaning & use

Stanning

verb·Everyday

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Being an extremely devoted, enthusiastic fan of a celebrity or public figure, often expressing that devotion publicly online.

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She spends most of her free time stanning her favorite K-pop group on social media.

Fans were stanning the new album within hours of its release.

A note on using this word

The verb comes from "stan," coined from the title of Eminem's 2000 song about an obsessive fan, and it has since entered mainstream dictionaries as informal slang.

Words with a similar meaning

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