Meaning

2 senses
  1. (slang)A person who is a stan (“obsessive fan”) of multiple people or things, especially K-pop performers.

  2. (South Africa, historical)A proposed special territory in apartheid-era South Africa in which racial laws are repealed and the authority of the central government is reduced, advocated as a policy by Paul N. Malherbe.

Origin

From multi- + stan (“obsessive fan”). From multi- + -stan, possibly modelled after bantus

From multi- + stan (“obsessive fan”).

From multi- + -stan, possibly modelled after bantustan. Coined by Paul N. Malherbe in his 1974 book Multistan: A Way Out of the South African Dilemma.

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