crackship
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
crack + ship, alluding to the erratic behaviour of crack cocaine users.
Noun[edit]
crackship (plural crackships)
- (fandom slang) A ship that is canonically implausible, bizarre, or humorous.
- 2015, Kristen J. Warner, The Cultural Politics of Colorblind TV Casting, unnumbered page:
- Moreover, in the more silly venues of fandom, some fans generate "crack ships," or nonsensical couplings, such as sensing chemistry between Bonnie/A Rock.
- 2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, unnumbered page:
- We carve out little fiefdoms with the common love of a middle-aged actress, and we march up the gangplank to board our favorite crackship.
- 2019, "Thefudge", "The Marvelously Crafted", Lemon, 1 February 2019, page 49:
- With rarepairs and crackships, it's the unlikeliness or even impossibility of their coming together that gets you going.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:crackship.