fanboy en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfænˌbɔɪ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From fan + boy.
Meanings
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(derogatory, often, slang) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
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:Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.
2008 December 10, Tim Barribeau, “What's so great about Macs?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2014:(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 microscopic detail.)
1988 August, Bart Bull, “Comics”, in Spin, volume 4, number 5, →ISSN, page 41:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fanboi | alternative | lexicographic | |
| fanboys | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
ru фана́тка (someone devoted to a single subject) · es simpatizante (someone devoted to a single subject) · bg запаля́нко (someone devoted to a single subject) · fi fanipoika (someone devoted to a single subject) · de Fanboy (someone devoted to a single subject) · es fan (someone devoted to a single subject) · eo zelotiĉo (someone devoted to a single subject) · de Jünger (someone devoted to a single subject) · ru фана́т (someone devoted to a single subject) · pt fanático (someone devoted to a single subject) · pt fanboy (someone devoted to a single subject)