Bandwagoner

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.

    "[…] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the "bandwagon" were pathetic. "Not a man has spoken to him in two hours," announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly."

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"[…] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the "bandwagon" were pathetic. "Not a man has spoken to him in two hours," announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly."

Etymology

From bandwagon + -er.

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