Jikook

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of Jimin +‎ Jungkook.

Proper noun

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Jikook

  1. (fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of Park Ji-min and Jeon Jung-kook of the K-pop boy band BTS.
    • 2018 September 12, Jessica Lindsay, “What does shipping mean when people aren’t talking about ships?”, in Metro, UK:
      For example, there are portmanteaus of each and every BTS member combination, with fans hoping that JiKook (Jimin and Jungkook) or V-Hope (V and J-Hope) will become a thing.
    • 2019, Palmer Haasch, "Community, Soul-Searching and Pleasure: The Significance of Real Person Fanfiction in BTS Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, page 13:
      "JiKook," the pairing of Korean boy band BTS members Jeon Jeong-guk and Park Ji-min, is the fourth most popular ship despite the fact that neither pairing is together in real life.
    • 2019 December 26, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Michelle Jaworski, “The 10 most influential fandoms of the 2010s”, in The Daily Dot:
      (By far the most popular BTS ship is Jikook, which pairs Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook together.)
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jikook.