Fancam

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Amateur film footage of a celebrity taken unofficially by a fan.

    "A smorgasbord of extras enable the Beastie fiend to view the concert from other, remote-controlled cameras and jump in and out of different fancams, even accompanying one concertgoer on a trip to the bog."

  2. 2
    footage of a celebrity taken by a fan wordnet
  3. 3
    An edit which incorporates fancams. broadly
  4. 4
    An edit, such as an AMV, which features clips from a piece of media, generally surrounding a single character. slang

Example

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"A smorgasbord of extras enable the Beastie fiend to view the concert from other, remote-controlled cameras and jump in and out of different fancams, even accompanying one concertgoer on a trip to the bog."

Etymology

From fan + cam.

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