zine

See also: Zine, žíně, and 'zine

English

Alternative forms

• 'zine

Etymology

Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ziːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

zine (plural zines)

1. A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest.
   • 2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.

   • 2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:

     The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.

   • 2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:

     I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.

   • 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1], season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):

     “Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”

Derived terms

• adzine
• apazine
• blogzine
• clubzine
• crudzine
• cyberzine
• diskzine
• ezine, e-zine
• fanzine
• filmzine
• genzine
• girlzine
• infozine
• letterzine
• litzine
• musiczine
• netzine
• personalzine, perzine
• prozine
• punk zine, punkzine
• slashzine
• stfanzine
• stfzine
• tapezine
• videozine
• webzine
• zinefan
• zinefest
• zinelike
• zinester

Translations

publication

• French: brochure (fr) f
• Russian: зин (ru) m (zin)
• Spanish: zine (es) m

Anagrams

• Inez, nize, zein

Latgalian

Etymology

Related to the verb zynuot; compare Lithuanian žinia, Latvian ziņa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zʲinʲæ/

Noun

zine f

1. message, news, information, signal

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

zine (Cyrillic spelling зине)

1. third-person singular present of zinuti

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθin/ [ˈθĩn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsin/ [ˈsĩn]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

zine m (plural zines)

1. zine

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.