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fanboys

fanboys is the plural of fanboy.

fanboys is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Noun capitalized: FANBOYS

FANBOYS pl (plural only)

  1. (mnemonic, plural, plural-only) Acronym used to remember the coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
    • The risk is greater with subordinating conjunctions (see “Starting a Sentence with Because”), but the FANBOYS are sometimes considered guilty by association: […]2008 July 8, Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, New York: Macmillan, →ISBN, →OL, page 80
    • These FANBOYS help create compound sentences, and when they serve this role, a comma comes before their use.2009 September 24, Mel Friedman, Rena Grasso, Carol Hunter, Laura Meiselman, The Best Test Preparation for the PRAXIS II ParaPro Assessment 0755 and 1755, Piscataway: Research & Education...

Origin of fanboys

Acronym of For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

Questions about fanboys

What does fanboys mean?
Fanboys means acronym used to remember the coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
What is fanboys the plural of?
Fanboys is the plural of fanboy.
What part of speech is fanboys?
Fanboys is a noun.

Words near fanboys in the dictionary

  1. fanboyed
  2. fanboying
  3. fanboyish
  4. fanboyishly
  5. fanboyism
  6. fanboys
  7. fanbrat
  8. fanbrats
  9. fancam
  10. fancams
  11. fancast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanboys (page history and authors); FANBOYS (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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