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Lostaway
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English
Etymology
en lost castaway.
Noun
en fandom slang A fan of the television series Lost (2004 TV series) Lost.
en 19 August 2010 http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20100819/a-big-find-for-lost-fans-items-from-hit-show-will-be-auctioned-off A big find for `Lost' fans: Items from hit show will be auctioned off Daily News Los Angeles Die-hard "Lostaways" and other collectors will get the chance to purchase props and costumes from the series during a weekend auction at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190507/http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20100819/a-big-find-for-lost-fans-items-from-hit-show-will-be-auctioned-off 4 March 2016
en 2011 William Irwin; David Kyle Johnson Daniel B. Gallagher Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House https://books.google.com/books?id=_tgwsjKwaYAC&pg=PT142&dq=%22lostaways%22 John Wiley & Sons 9781444390988 The character of Rose Henderson spurns us diehard Lostaways to confront the same issue week after week as we throw ourselves onto the living room couch and join our friends on the island:
en 2012 Jessica K. Sklar; Elizabeth S. Sklar Kristine Larsen 'You Never Said Anything about Math': Math Phobia and Math Fanaticism in the World of Lost Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-Q_2G8CiyYC&pg=PA34&dq=%22lostaways%22 34 McFarland 9780786489947 In its use of mathematics, Lost also highlights this unfortunate circumstance, and in the process further separates the viewers into the binary mode of casual viewer versus diehard “Lostaways.”
en fandom slang One of the fictional characters stranded on the mysterious island on the television show Lost (2004 TV series) Lost.
en 2006 Nikki Stafford Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=waVCqzL8b4kC&pg=PA284&dq=%22lostaways%22 284 ECW Press 2008 9781554902767 At the end of the previous episode, the Lostaways discovered a crate full of food and supplies that seems to have literally appeared out of thin air,
en 2006 Orson Scott Card Evelyn Vaughn Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed? Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting over in J. J. Abrams https://books.google.com/books?id=gyr-4gwhxT4C&pg=PA59&dq=%22lostaways%22 59 Lost , BenBella Books 9781935251453 We get a little of that in the travel of a frame story, too, romantic or not–don't think there wasn't flirting going on even among the storytellers of the Decameron, and we've all seen the pairings, possible pairings, and former pairings of the Lostaways.
2011, Randy Laist, "Introduction", in Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (ed. Randy Laist), McFarland (2011), 9780786485888, page 1:
The cumulative effect of this densely allusive atmosphere is insistent enough to suggest that when the Lostaways crashed on that creepy island, they became stranded in a kind of reality that is not altogether real, but one that is eerily continuous with the kind of reality found in fictional literature.
Synonyms
en Lostie
en Fans (people) Lost (TV series)