Collocations for "fan"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "fan" in context.
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fan
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [football, soccer, jazz, Beatles] fan
- not a [big, great] fan of [football]
- am a (real) fan of [pizza, the movies, hip hop]
- am a huge fan of [yours, your music]
- is his number one fan
- was surrounded by his fans
- was [stalked, pursued, harassed] by a fan
- [greeted, waved to, ignored] the fans
- the fans [cheered, yelled, booed]
- a [hand, handheld, ceiling, rotating, paper, battery-operated] fan
- the extractor fan
- cool off with a fan
- use a fan to [cool off, keep cool]
- turn on [a, the] fan
- turn up the fan
- turn the fan up
- did you turn the fan on?
- the fan [scattered, blew away] all the papers
- offensive, slang: the sh*t has hit the fan
- a member of his fan club
- fan [fiction, art]
- read your fan mail
- fan your face
- fan yourself in the [sun, heat]
- fanning herself with [a paper, her hand, her hat]
- fan the [flies, bugs] away
- fanned the flames
- fanning the flames of [war, hatred, passion]
- fan the [cards, deck]
- fan out to [search, look] for
- [locals, volunteers, officers, the rescue team] fanned out
'fan' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
armchair
- base
- belt
- blade
- broaden
- brush
- closet
- club
- contribution
- cooling
- devoted
- drone
- enjoyment
- excited
- fiction
- infatuation
- laughing
- letter
- lit
- literature
- loyal
- oven
- passionate
- politic
- predict
- roll
- shit
- shroud
- spoof
- stalk
- steadfast
- steward
- strife
- suck
- video
- zone