What does it mean to “ship”?

I can’t explain where this term came from. But it means that you really like this fictional couple in a romantic setting. Some people who are very dedicated shippers write not for profit fiction, called fanfiction, about their favorite ships. The couple may or may not be an actually couple in the work the characters are taken from.

I hope this made sense. 🙂

In the usage above, it refers to internet terms “ship” and “shippers”:

From Wiki:

“Shipping, derived from the word “relationship,” is a general term for fans’ emotional and/or intellectual involvement with the ongoing development of romance in a work of fiction. Though technically applicable to any such involvement, it refers chiefly to various related social dynamics observable on the Internet, and is seldom used outside of that context.

Shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship — from the well-known and established, to the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even to the highly improbable and the blatantly impossible. People involved in shipping (or shippers) assert that the relationship does exist, will exist, or simply that they would like it to exist.”

to transfer something or someone