Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Internet, informal)An IRC channel.

  2. (Internet, informal)An imageboard.

    more niche chans

  3. (dated, slang)Fanwork depicting sexual relationships betwen an adult and a minor;

  4. Fanwork depicting sexual relationships betwen an adult and a minor;

    (dated, slang, uncommon)Or between two underage characters.

Origin

Clipping of channel. From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel. From the

Clipping of channel.

From 4chan, a popular imageboard; ultimately from channel.

From the Japanese familiar suffix ちゃん (-chan).

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Forms

plural: chans
Singularchan
Pluralchans

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chan — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto