An informal term for someone who participates in or performs standups — whether that means a comedian doing live sets or a developer enduring the daily Agile ritual.
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A short daily meeting — classically 15 minutes, standing up so nobody gets comfortable — where each person shares what they did yesterday, what they're doing today, and what's blocking them.
(Internet slang, Reddit slang, humorous) An upvote.
(informal) A fight or altercation.
A hyper stan is everything turned up to eleven in real time — they're the ones flooding every comment section within minutes of a post going up, refreshing Spotify charts every hour, posting unhinged threads at 3am defending their fave from a reply that got 12 likes. Where a mega stan has deep roots and long history, a hyper stan is pure kinetic energy, always in motion, always reactive. Hyper stans make fandoms feel alive and chaotic and slightly terrifying to anyone outside them.
An informal term for someone who participates in or performs standups — whether that means a comedian doing live sets or a developer enduring the daily Agile ritual. In dev circles a standuper is often the person who treats the fifteen-minute sync like a performance opportunity, delivering their update with suspicious amounts of charisma. In comedy it can mean an enthusiastic hobbyist or open-mic regular who hasn't quite earned the full comedian label yet. The word carries a slightly playful tone either way.
He's been a standuper at every open mic in the city for two years and still hasn't told a joke that lands.