Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbie shipper

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English

Syllables: bar-bi-e -ship-per
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who ships Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the The X-Files.

Dated; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"Normally, I don't respond to your kind of bullshit or the other mindless Barbie shipper/Duchovbot bullshit I've had to endure, but I couldn't let this pass."
"CC's gamble to have 'Mulder the Absent Center' may have appeased a few barbie shipper types but it also drove off a lot of the fanbase as well."
"There was a big deal about SCULLY'S CHASTITY = DEVOTION TO MULDER during the heyday of the Shipper versus Noromo wars. That "Barbie Shippers" faction of XF fandom is currently cloistering itself somewhere in really dreadful, schmoopy fanfic where no other character threatens the purity of their "deep, abiding luv"."

Etymology

Presumably from the likening of shipping characters to playing with Barbie dolls.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Barbie shippers (plural)

Questions

What does barbie shipper mean?: One who ships Fox Mulder and Dana Scully from the The X-Files.
Where does barbie shipper come from?: Presumably from the likening of shipping characters to playing with Barbie dolls.

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