Pokemon

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See also: pokemon, pokémon, and Pokémon

English

Noun

Pokemon (plural Pokemon or (nonstandard) Pokemons)

  1. Informal form of Pokémon.
    • 2001, Anne Marie Knott, Venture Design, : Entity Press, →ISBN, page 223:
      One caveat here-⁠–some products, such as Furbys and Pokemons are driven by a social process (as discussed in Chapter 7). For these products, purchase intentions will be understated because the survey is conducted in isolation from the social effects.
    • 2002, Nicholas Coleridge, Godchildren, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 436:
      Having several times collected her goddaughter from Busy Lizzie’s after school and taken her to her once-a-week gym club, Mary recognised Poppy’s Nigerian gym teacher sitting in a side pew, and the delightful old newsagent from Holland Park Avenue where Poppy loved to stop on her way home and buy Pokemons and sweets.
    • 2009, Jennifer Cowan, Earthgirl, Toronto, Ont.: Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, →ISBN, page 61:
      He picked up my Pokemon pillow (revered for its status as the first and only prize I ever won at the Ex) and started punching it in the face. / “Do you mind?” / “Right, sorry,” he nodded, putting it back amidst my plushy and pillow collection, which suddenly seemed very little girlie. “Pokemons are people, too. []