loccer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From LoC (“Letter of Comment”) + -er.
Noun
[edit]loccer (plural loccers)
- (dated, fandom slang) A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.
- 1980 February 16, Taral Wayne, “The Taral-Torial Imperitive”, in DNQ[1], number 27, page 1:
- Recently, Gary Farber circulated a one-sheet zine to stir up some activity in the FAAn Award committee. [...] He wants to know [...] 3) whether the Best Loccer can be dropped,
- 1995 February 23, Fiona Anderson, “Re: Peeve concerning feedback”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[2] (Usenet), message-ID <793565273snz@intersec.demon.co.uk>:
- Actually I enjoyed them a lot, but I'm the world's worst loccer - too much else to do (fannishly), and the passivity of being a reader sets in if you don't loc immediately you get an issue.
- 2012 April, Robert Runte, “Left Over Pieces”, in Broken Toys[3], number 2, page 13:
- I don't think Rotsler ever intended his illos to be taken as high art any more than the average loccer intends one's commentary to be deathless prose.