Citations:Fannibal

Noun: "(fandom slang) a fan of the American television series Hannibal and/or of the fictional character Hannibal Lecter"

 * 2013, Julien Fielding, "What’s on TV: ‘Hannibal’ gives a better backstory to Dr. Lecter", The Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, Iowa), 20 June 2013, page 9A:
 * I consider myself to be a “Fannibal.”
 * 2013, Nina Garin, "'Hannibal' debuts at Comic-Con", U-T San Diego, 26 June 2013:
 * Attention Fannibals! (That's what fans of the NBC drama, "Hannibal" call themselves. Really.)
 * 2013, Mariah Anissa Ramos, "From the Desk of a Fannibal", Triton's Call (University of Guam), Volume 35, Issue 2, October 2013, page 18 (used in title only)
 * 2013, Mollie Forman, "Eat the executive", Post- (Brown University), 20 November 2013:
 * Following this example, the Fannibals mailed NBC business cards reading “Eat the Rude” and bombed Twitter in hopes of trending worldwide. Suffice it to say, the show was renewed.
 * 2014, Emma Frey, "Finding humanity in ‘Hannibal’", The Knox Student (Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois), 5 March 2014:
 * If you’re not already a “fannibal,” I highly recommend checking out NBC’s interpretation of arguably the most famous fictional serial killer.
 * 2014, Scott Neumyer, "NBC's 'Hannibal' returns with higher ratings", New York Daily News, 11 March 2014:
 * “There was a tremendous groundswell of support from the Fannibals,” Fuller told The News,
 * 2014, "Blood work", Total Film, July 2014, page 25:
 * We can see why even the actors would get freaked out making Hannibal – it features some of the most disgusting corpses this side of The Walking Dead, which ‘Fannibals’ refer to as ‘tableaus’ because of their arty arrangements.