Citations:A/B/O

Noun: "(fandom slang) a subgenre of fan fiction"

 * 2013, Kristina Busse, "Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 317:
 * Many A/B/O stories posit societies where biological imperatives divide people based on wolf pack hierarchies into sexual dominants (alphas), sexual submissives (omegas), and everyone else (betas).
 * 2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer in His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, and Fandom's Discontents," dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 177:
 * ("E" says that A/B/O fics help mitigate some of their own struggles around "gender bullshit").
 * 2017, Marianne Gunderson, "What is an omega? Rewriting sex and gender in omegaverse fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 103:
 * It also harnesses the a/b/o trope to increase the stakes of intimacy and trust in the context of sexual encounters, and to intensify descriptions of desire and sexual pleasure.
 * 2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, "When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal Fandom", in The Darker Side of Slash Fan Fiction (ed. Ashton Spacey), page 120:
 * As is the case with primates, the human protagonists of traditional A/B/O stories can never be equals, and their roles can never be interchanged.
 * 2018, Milena Popova, "'Dogfuck rapeworld': Omegaverse fanfiction as a critical tool in analyzing the impact of social power structures on intimate relationships and sexual consent", Porn Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2018):
 * The first stories recognized as A/B/O emerged in mid-2010 and what began as another trope has evolved into a genre and gained popularity across a number of large fandoms, including Supernatural, Teen Wolf, and Sherlock.