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.