zine

noun

: magazine
especially : a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter
a feminist zine

Examples of zine in a Sentence

a small cadre of students have taken to producing their own underground zine in order to satirize many of the university's most sacred cows
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What started as a bowling night (at Santa Monica’s now-defunct Bay Shore Lanes) for local bands, labels and zines eventually grew to a weekend of partying in Las Vegas for the Sterns’ punk rock friends all over the region. Josh Chesler, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025 Perfect for modern farmhouse dwellers and cottagecore fanatics, this piece would be a thoughtful addition to the kitchen—use the hooks to organize aprons, oven mitts, dish towels, while housing your most compact cookbooks or zines on the top shelf. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 Next week, Pitchfork is hosting a live event to celebrate the release of a new quarterly zine. Pitchfork, 1 Mar. 2025 By this time, however, the Conclave zine and larger social media phenomenon had spawned a Discord server of devoted fans eager to pitch in on coverage. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for zine

Word History

Etymology

-zine (as in fanzine)

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of zine was in 1946

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“Zine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zine. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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