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Sports fan

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.

    "Patrick: "Peter, you shouldn't encourage people to be fat. Fat people are immoral." Peter: "How do you figure, sports fan?" Patrick: "They're just bad, like that Jackie Gleason.""

  2. 2
    an enthusiastic devotee of sports wordnet
  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.

Etymology

A term originally used by sportscasters to address the viewing public, later generalized to non-sports contexts.

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