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'zine

  [zeen]
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–noun
fanzine.
Also, zine.

Origin:
by shortening
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zine also 'zine   (zēn)   
n.  

  1. An inexpensively produced, self-published, underground publication: I often contributed cartoons and essays to other people's 'zines, so why didn't I just buckle down and start my own? (Pagan Kennedy).

  2. An e-zine.


[Short for magazine.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

zine 
1965, short for fanzine (1949), from fan + suffix abstracted from magazine.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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