Relationshipper
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people. slang
"I don’t care what the relationshippers say, it’s just so OBVIOUS to try to get the two of them together and the X-Files has never been obvious."
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More examples"I don’t care what the relationshippers say, it’s just so OBVIOUS to try to get the two of them together and the X-Files has never been obvious."
Etymology
From relationship + -er. Emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. First attested on alt.tv.x-files in January 1996, but it was seemingly already in use by then.
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