shipper

English

Etymology 1

Either formed anew from ship +‎ -er or borrowed from Middle Low German schipper; compare skipper and Old English sċipere (“sailor”). Piecewise doublet of skipper (“captain, sailor”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɪp.ə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

shipper (plural shippers)

  1. (archaic) A seaman; mariner; skipper.
  2. The person or organization that ships (sends) something.
    The shipper should have paid for insurance on the package, because it was damaged when it arrived.
  3. A box for shipping something fragile, such as bottled beer or wine.
Translations

Etymology 2

From a clipping of relationshipper. Relationshipper 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.[1][2] It was shortened to r'shipper, then 'shipper, and finally shipper.[2][3]

Noun

shipper (plural shippers)

  1. (fandom slang) A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.
    Synonym: relationshipper
    Antonym: anti-shipper
    Coordinate term: slasher
    • 2013, Jennifer K. Stuller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 42:
      For creative fans and committed 'shippers[sic], fanfiction continues the interaction — the dialogue, the conversation, the story […]
Derived terms

References
  1. Maggie Owens, "The Sweet Science of Shipping It", Fandom, 29 June 2008
  2. Alyse Wax, "How The X-Files helped shape modern fandom — including shipping", Syfy, 20 March 2018. Archived from the original on March 6, 2021.
  3. Anna Iovine, "It's time to add internet slang 'ship' to the dictionary", Mashable, 20 November 2019

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