Groyper en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡɹɔɪ.pə(ɹ)/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɡɹɔɪ.pəɹ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From the groyper meme.
Meanings
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(US) A member of the far-right and ethnonationalist America First group led by Nicholas Fuentes (b. 1998).
The conservative writer Rod Dreher, a close friend of [JD] Vance, warned, “I am told by someone in a position to know that something like 30 to 40 percent of D.C. G.O.P. staffers under the age of 30 are Groypers.”
2025 November 4, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Rod Dreher, “Nick Fuentes Is Becoming Charlie Kirk’s Successor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2025:Nick Fuentes, an attendee of the Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville and host of the podcast America First, is also one of the leaders of the Groypers, or the Groyper Army, a White nationalist group named after the meme of Pepe the Frog, which was co-opted in 2016 as an antisemitic symbol.
2022, Sara Kamali, Homegrown Hate, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24:Watch any event with a prominent conservative speaker these days, and you’ll find Groyper or Groyper-adjacent young men asking the questions that end up going viral on social media. […] It’s fun for Groypers in 2025 to gush about Newsom’s beautiful white family and hint that they’re going to jump ship at the prospect of an Indian First Lady.
2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025:“If [JD] Vance condemns the Groypers, we are deploying to Iowa,” Mr. Fuentes said. “I swear I’m going to move to Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina and one primary after the next.”
2025 November 6, Clyde McGrady, quoting Nick Fuentes, “Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2025:
- (broadly) A person who associates with any far right or alt-right groups.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groypers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |