Definition of "mavin" []

• Variant of maven. (noun)

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• "One bon-bon is "Spinning Caesar's murder", a book review by Mary Beard, who is a mavin on the era."
• "I had a friend over for supper last night, a traveling tech mavin who works for a hotel chain setting up their software and networking."
• "She goes from a cheesecake actress to raving red and feminist, to aerobics mavin, to UN busy-body (courtesy of new $$$ hubby Turner after dumping radical husband #1)."