What the heck does ship mean?

[Cool story]

OK I feel extremely out of the loop... But what does it mean to ship people? Like I got on twitter for the first time in months and I had a bunch of tweets from people "shipping" me with Harry styles, I'm a girl, clearly. Please explain this nonsense to me.

[laufeyson â™”]

In order to 'ship', you need two people. It's basically when you love a relationship/couple so much that you just can't stand them, they're too beautiful. Like Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, I ship their relationship because they just seem perfect for each other. You can ship people who aren't in a relationship, you can even ship fictional characters.

[Leigh]

It's putting two people's names together.
Their are a whole bunch of one's going around with one direction now.
Like the classic Larry stylinson (Harry and Louis are shipped)
Directioners do this with their name and one of the boys (but you could do it with anybody)
Hope I helped

[hollisterr12]

Relationship is another word for ship or shipping. It can mean that they have feelings for one another which could lead to one another but as for fan bases it means that certain person would like to see you and that celebrity as a couple such for example you and that celebrity would look great together.

[Alyssa]

It means liking two people as a couple. Like Larry Stylinson, Niam, Ziall, etc. Its in other fandoms too like The Wanted, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, etc.