Lostaway

English

Etymology

Blend of lost +‎ castaway.

Noun

Lostaway (plural Lostaways)

1. (fandom slang) A fan of the television series Lost.
   • 2010 August 19, “A big find for `Lost' fans: Items from hit show will be auctioned off”, in Daily News, Los Angeles:

     Die-hard "Lostaways" and other collectors will get the chance to purchase props and costumes from the series during a weekend auction at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar.

   • 2011, Daniel B. Gallagher, “Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason”, in William Irwin, David Kyle Johnson, editors, Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     The character of Rose Henderson spurns us diehard Lostaways to confront the same issue week after week as we throw ourselves onto the living room couch and join our friends on the island: […]

   • 2012, Kristine Larsen, “'You Never Said Anything about Math': Math Phobia and Math Fanaticism in the World of Lost”, in Jessica K. Sklar, Elizabeth S. Sklar, editors, Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media, McFarland, →ISBN, page 34:

     In its use of mathematics, Lost also highlights this unfortunate circumstance, and in the process further separates the viewers into the binary mode of casual viewer versus diehard “Lostaways.”

2. (fandom slang) One of the fictional characters stranded on the mysterious island on the television show Lost.
   • 2006, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide, ECW Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 284:

     At the end of the previous episode, the Lostaways discovered a crate full of food and supplies that seems to have literally appeared out of thin air, […]

   • 2006, Evelyn Vaughn, “Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed?”, in Orson Scott Card, editor, Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting over in J. J. Abrams, Lost , BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 59:

     We get a little of that in the travel of a frame story, too, romantic or not–don't think there wasn't flirting going on even among the storytellers of the Decameron, and we've all seen the pairings, possible pairings, and former pairings of the Lostaways.

   • 2011, Randy Laist, "Introduction", in Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (ed. Randy Laist), McFarland (2011), →ISBN, page 1:

     The cumulative effect of this densely allusive atmosphere is insistent enough to suggest that when the Lostaways crashed on that creepy island, they became stranded in a kind of reality that is not altogether real, but one that is eerily continuous with the kind of reality found in fictional literature.

Synonyms

• Lostie