fic
/fɪk
/noun [mass noun]
1Fiction, especially fan fiction: I’ve been reading One Direction fic longer than I’ve even been a proper fan she prefers to write long historical novels in highly accessible prose rather than lit fic...
- She teamed up with Billings in 2010 to write other fic together.
- I'm more of a non-fic writer than fic and my non-fic topic won't appeal to my writer audience.
- This is much too good a book to veer into "revenge fic", a sub-species of fan fiction in which writers inflict suffering on characters that they dislike.
1.1 [count noun] A piece of fan fiction: I read tons of fics a Twilight fic...
- She published her fic as a legitimate novel, and it had a rabid online fanbase.
- I don't think any of her fics are online anymore.
- "I look back at my first fics and cringe," she says.
Origin
1930s (in sci-fic, short for science fiction): abbreviation.