het ship: A ship between a male character and a female character.

OTP: One true pairing. Refers to the shippers prefered ship for the characters involved.

self ship: A ship between a canon character and the shipper themselves, or their self insert OC.

rarepair: A ship considered rare in the fandom, rather than one of the popular ships.

crack ship: A ship considered to be so unusual or out there the shipper would have to be on drugs to have come up with it.

slash ship: A ship between two male characters. Sometimes called yaoi.

femslash ship: A ship between two female characters, sometimes called yuri.

poly ship: A ship between more than two characters at the same time.

canon ship: A ship that is considered to be canon within the source material.

toy ship: A ship between two child characters

teen ship: A ship between two teen characters

tag ship: A a ship between a teen character and a child character

cradle ship: A ship between an a child character and an adult character

xgen ship: A ship between a teen character and an adult character

may ship: A ship between two adult characters who have an age gap

shipcest: A ship between two related characters. Also styled kin ship.

twincest: A ship between twin siblings. Also styled twin ship.

selfcest: A ship between two different versions of the same character. Not to be confused with a self ship.

lock ship: A ship involving noncon elements.

pick ship: a ship involving dubcon elements

scale ship: A ship involving a significant power imbalance other than the age of the characters

companion ship: A ship between a human character and a nonhuman (generally feral furry) character.

dimmer ship: A ship written in some way to be darker than fandom generally perceives the ship to be.

blackrom ship: A romantic ship between rivals or enemies. Also called foe yay or rival ship. A ship where the characters remain opposed, despite being romantically involved.

E2 ship: Enemies to lovers. A ship that starts off between enemies, and progressively softens until the characters are no longer enemies.

ghost ship: A ship where one character is alive, and the other is dead.

cargo ship: A ship between a character and an inanimate object.

mentor ship: A ship between a character and their mentor figure.

robo ship: A ship between a robot character and a non robot character.

yandere ship: A ship in which at least one character is a yandere.

rpf ship: Ship about real life people in a fictional context.

starboard ship: A one-sided relationship, or a ship where one character’s affection isn’t returned.