crudzine

English

Etymology

From crud ‎ zine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹʌdˈziːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

crudzine (plural crudzines)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A low-quality fanzine.
   • 1969, Amazing Stories, volume 43, page 134:

     Perihelion shares with the rankest crudzines a penchant for printing amateur (or almost-amateur) fiction, and a generally gosh-wow outlook.

   • 1981 November, Terry Hughes, “The Modified Big Bang Theory”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎^[1], number 7, page 27:

     This is one of the questions that has long puzzled mankind (along with why dropped toast always lands buttered-side down and how come crudzine editors always find your mailing address).

   • 1997 October 19, Sandra Bond, “Re: Jubilee”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎^[2] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:

     <nostalgic sigh> I remember the cover I stuck on my crudzine at the time of the first Jersey Eastercon... two top-hatted and tiara'd toffs saying "Hurrah! what fun at Jersey in '89".
     Nobody seemed to take any notice. But then, it _was_ a very _cruddy_ crudzine.

Hypernyms

• fanzine

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “crudzine”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 29–30.