fanboy
US/ˈfænˌbɔɪ/
fanboy noun: a male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
Noun
fanboy (plural fanboys)
- 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
- Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.1998 September, Brian Doherty, “Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side”, in Spin, volume 14, number 9, →ISSN, page 108
Verb
fanboy (third-person singular simple present fanboys, present participle fanboying, simple past and past participle fanboyed)
- To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
- James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.2013, Rowan Lake Jr, Heaven Fighter Angelon
- To Yusef Komunyakaa, thank you for […] tolerating my fanboying when, by luck, I sat down beside you one rainy night in a West Village theater […] and kept yapping about everything and nothing at all.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, [Acknowledgements]
Forms of fanboy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fanboys |
| alternative form | fanboi |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fanboys |
| present participle | fanboying |
| past participle | fanboyed |
| past | fanboyed |
Origin of fanboy
From fan + boy.
Words formed from fanboy
Questions about fanboy
- What does fanboy mean?
- Fanboy means a male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
- What part of speech is fanboy?
- Fanboy can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fanboy?
- Fanboy is pronounced /ˈfænˌbɔɪ/ (US).
- What is the plural of fanboy?
- The plural of fanboy is fanboys.
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