shipper

English

Etymology 1

Either formed anew from ship +‎ -er or borrowed from Middle Low German schipper; compare skipper and Old English sċipere (“sailor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪp.ə(ɹ)/

Noun

shipper (plural shippers)

1. (archaic) A seaman; mariner; skipper.
2. The person or organization that ships (sends) something.

   The shipper should have paid for insurance on the package, because it was damaged when it arrived.

3. A box for shipping something fragile, such as bottled beer or wine.

Translations

the person or organization that ships (sends) something

• Bulgarian: изпращач (bg) m (izpraštač), товародател m (tovarodatel)
• Czech: přepravce (cs)
• Greek: ναυλωτής (el) m (navlotís), αποστολέας (el) m (apostoléas)
• Russian: грузоотправи́тель (ru) m (gruzootpravítelʹ), товароотправи́тель (ru) m (tovarootpravítelʹ), отправи́тель (ru) m (otpravítelʹ) (гру́за)

Etymology 2

From a clipping of relationshipper. Relationshipper emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. It was shortened to r'shipper, then 'shipper, and finally shipper.

Noun

shipper (plural shippers)

2. (fandom slang) A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.

   Synonym: relationshipper

   Antonym: anti-shipper

   Coordinate term: slasher

   • 2013, Jennifer K. Stuller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 42:

     For creative fans and committed 'shippers^[sic], fanfiction continues the interaction — the dialogue, the conversation, the story […]

Derived terms

• anti-shipper
• finishipper
• friendshipper
• multishipper
• proshipper
• semi-shipper
• shipperhood
• shippery

 

Related terms

• ship
• shipfic
• shipped
• shipping

 

Anagrams

• Piphers