destiel
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Meaning · English
The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “destiel” mean?
The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.
Is “destiel” formal or informal?
destiel is generally slang.