conreport

English

Etymology

Blend of convention +‎ report

Noun

conreport (plural conreports)

1. (fandom slang) A report on the events of a convention.
   • 1951 December, Walter Alexander Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Quandry‎^[1], number 16, archived from the original on 7 June 2011:

     The reverberations of that Conreport of mine have been wringing in my ears for weeks.

   • 1952 October, Fred J. Robinson, “Contemplations, part 2”, in Straight Up‎^[2], volume 1, number 5:

     As various other conreports have indicated, the comments of the audience during this show were rich in fannish humour.

   • 1962 December 17, Ron Bennett, “Warhoon 17”, in Skyrack‎^[3], number 48:

     There are a few pages of fascinating letters and a short convention report by Walter Breen, apart from short articles by Charles Wells, John Baxter and James Blish. Look, don’t let that description of Breen’s conreport throw you. If you like detailed convention reports, this near-perfect blow by blow description of the ChiCon should delight you, no less, all forty odd pages of it.

   • 1997 March 13, Jette Goldie, “Re: Season 6 is a go!”, in alt.tv.highlander‎^[4] (Usenet), message-ID <33274b6b.24634312@news.ednet.co.uk>:

     Oh, t'was a lovely con. I promise I'll finish the conreport soonest.

Derived terms

• conrep

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “conreport”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 27.
• Jesse Sheidlower, editor (2001–2024), “conreport n.”, in Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction.