sports fan
English edit
Etymology edit
A term originally used by sportscasters to address the viewing public, later generalized to non-sports contexts.
Noun edit
sports fan (plural sports fans)
- A familiar form of address, a jocular term of endearment.
- 2005 November 27, Chris Sheridan, “The Fat Guy Strangler”, in Family Guy, season 4, episode 17, production code 4ACX20:
- 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."
- 2007 July 11, Jim Schembri, “The Shameless Thrills of Schadenfreude”, in The Age:
- "So listen up, sports fan. You just might learn something. "
- 2013, Anne Serling, As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling, Citadel Press:
- "That's an expression my dad uses a lot. He calls people "sports fan." "How you doing there, sports fan?"
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sports, fan.