Zine

//ziːn// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A low-circulation, noncommercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.

    "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two."

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samizdatsamizdat

Example

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"I'd hoped the zine would connect all sort of people who understood how much cooler it was to thrift than to buy new junk."

Etymology

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

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e-zinepunk zine

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