What Does This Mean?
A romantic pairing between two characters that fans root for, or the act of rooting for one — the noun/verb core that "shipping" and "shipper" both derive from.
EXPLAINER
ShippersGuideToTheGalaxy · original source ↗
EXPLAINER
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That's my ship, I don't care if the writers never make it canon."
LORE & ORIGIN
Shortened directly from "relationshipper"/"shipping," which trace to 1996 X-Files newsgroup usage, becoming the standard compact term across fandom spaces from LiveJournal onward.
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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