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fanboy

[ fan-boi ]

noun

  1. Sometimes fanboi. an obsessive male fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices:

    Apple fanboys lined up to buy the new phone.



verb (used without object)

  1. (of a male fan) to demonstrate intense excitement at the mention or in the presence of a particular celebrity, film, product, etc., especially one associated with popular culture or technology:

    I don't usually fanboy over optics, but these binoculars are awesome.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ڲ·Dz·Բ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fanboy1

First recorded in 1915–20; fan 2 + boy
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An apple-cheeked, motor-mouthed fanboy, he doesn’t fit the profile of, say, former Libyan dictator Moammar Kadafi who managed to command performances from Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.

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They wanted the Kristen Welkers of the world to know that the Constitution had flopped in its first 250 years out and that they were happy to fanboy out while the Department of Government Efficiency stripped the legislature of its purpose.

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That kind of fanboy speech shuts down difficult questions.

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He has also used his $44 billion investment in Twitter to turn it into a Trump fanboy site that promotes disinformation and conspiracy theories to help move as many people as possible to the right and into Trump’s camp.

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By all means, find your thing in nature and fanboy to your heart’s content.

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