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fanboi

fanboi is the alternative spelling of fanboy.

Meaning of fanboy

Noun

fanboy (plural fanboys)

  1. (derogatory, often, slang) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
    • (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in...1988 August, Bart Bull, “Comics”, in Spin, volume 4, number 5, →ISSN, page 41

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Forms of fanboi

pluralfanbois

Questions about fanboi

What is fanboi the alternative spelling of?
Fanboi is the alternative spelling of fanboy.

Words near fanboi in the dictionary

  1. fanbelts
  2. fanblog
  3. fanblogs
  4. fanboat
  5. fanboats
  6. fanboi
  7. fanbois
  8. fanbook
  9. fanbooks
  10. fanboy
  11. fanboyed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanboi (page history and authors); fanboy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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