groupie en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɡɹuːpi/
Etymology
From group + -ie (“person associated”). In the fan sense, from 1967.
Meanings
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A fan, especially a young female fan of a male singer or rock group, who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a celebrity; usually with a rock 'n' roll artist or band member.
2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock, Spin, page 102, Although Pamela Des Barres, rock′s most famous groupie, was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There was no hierarchy. The groupies were not considered less than the musicians. We were muses.”
The groupie experience from what I′ve seen is quite similar to the experiences I′ve had as the “fat girl,” who had the good looking guy give her attention behind closed doors but never had the opportunity to be the gal on his arm, and it is that emotional integrity I brought to the book.
2012, Ginger Voight, Groupie, unnumbered page:In mainstream rock youth culture, female fans had only submissive roles in the consumption of rock music: they could be teenyboppers, and when they grew older, groupies, with the groupie role providing a real-life extension of the sexualized hero worship of the teenybopper.
1999, Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk: Girl′s Gender Resistance in a Boy′s Subculture, published 2002, page 47:
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(broadly, informal) Any dedicated fan of something.
A bit of an eclipse groupie, he had paid the thirty guineas fee to join the BAA's first expedition, to Norway, in 1896.
2019, S. James Gates Jr., Cathie Pelletier, Proving Einstein Right:
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(slang) A group captain.
In traditional military fashion our "Groupie" (group captain) called us to attention, exchanged salutes with his German opposite number, then handed the parade over to him.
1995, John D. Harvie, Missing in Action: An RCAF Navigator's Story, page 136:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| groupies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
groupieism · groupiedom · supergroupie
Synonyms
band moll · band aid · band chick · starfucker · snuff queen · band rat
Translations (12)
fi bändäri (type of fan) · ru гру́пи (type of fan) · pt maria-palheta (type of fan) · fr groupie (type of fan) · es groupie (type of fan) · uk ґру́ппі (type of fan) · ru гру́ппи (type of fan) · uk ґру́пі (type of fan) · cmn 骨肉皮 (type of fan) · es grupi (type of fan) · cmn 果兒 /果儿 (type of fan) · sv groupie (type of fan)