Fanboy

Quick meaning: Fanboy is a noun meaning (fandom slang, intransitive) To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.

Meaning

(fandom slang, intransitive) To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.

More Meanings

1. (fandom slang, often derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).

Example Sentences

James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.

Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.

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.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, [Acknowledgements], 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.

Word Forms

• fanboys
• fanboi
• fanboying
• fanboyed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fangirl, fanboi, mediafan, faan, fanne, faaan.

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