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Rollermania en · NOUN

Etymology

From roller + -mania.

Meanings

  1. (historical, uncountable) A 1970s phenomenon of extreme or hysterical adulation for the Scottish boy band Bay City Rollers.
    • Everyone remembers Beatlemania. The Fab Four created a fan frenzy wherever they appeared. Yet a decade after their 1960s' peak, an equally hysterical teenage phenomenon gripped Britain. It was called Rollermania. 2014 May 3, Dominic Midgley, “Rocked by Rollermania: The Fab Four and their fame frenzy”, in Daily Express: