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Pokéfan
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English
thumb|200px|upright|Two cosplayers of Pokémon characters.
Etymology
en :af Poké- fan<id:fanatic> 1 +
Noun
en slang A fan or enthusiast of Pokémon.
en 12 November 2000 Cliff Barnes My Whitby Diary https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/uk.people.gothic/3xVmZQ-39mk/-sRrWJY3QpwJ uk.people.gothic This is fantastic... I've never met so many Pokéfans, and I've never seen so many Pikachu rucksacks around.
en 2004 Joseph Tobin Hirofumi Katsuno; Jeffrey Meret Localizing the Pokémon TV Series for the American Market Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon http://books.google.com/books?id=y3z0WzvUDqYC&pg=PA81&dq=%22pokéfans%22 81 Duke University Press 0822332507 When die-hard Pokéfans outside Japan discovered that portions of the original narrative were being withheld, they flocked to online chatrooms dedicated to the series, where they complained bitterly about censorship and debated various forms of protest.
en 2007 Eli Neiburger Gamers…in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages http://books.google.com/books?id=noq8A0uvnTEC&pg=PA71&dq=%22pokéfans%22 71 American Library Association 2007 9780838909447 Few of even the most hard-core Pokéfans will ever have tried this, so just pulling together a copy of Pokémon XD for GameCube and two GameCube-Game Boy cables can deliver a play experience that they've never had before.
Synonyms
en Pokémaniac
en Fans (people) Pokémon