bandwagoner
bandwagoner noun: someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.
Noun
bandwagoner (plural bandwagoners)
- Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.
- […] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the "bandwagon" were pathetic. "Not a man has spoken to him in two hours," announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly.1911, Franklin Hichborn, Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911, page 21
- Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times
- Synonyms:
- bandwagoneer
Synonyms of bandwagoner
Forms of bandwagoner
| plural | bandwagoners |
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Origin of bandwagoner
From bandwagon + -er.
Questions about bandwagoner
- What does bandwagoner mean?
- Bandwagoner means someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.
- What part of speech is bandwagoner?
- Bandwagoner is a noun.
- What is the plural of bandwagoner?
- The plural of bandwagoner is bandwagoners.
Words near bandwagoner in the dictionary
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