Groupie

//ˈɡɹuːpi// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fan, especially a young female fan of a male singer or rock group; a person who seeks intimacy (most often physical, sometimes emotional) with a celebrity, usually a rock 'n' roll artist or band member.

    "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."

  2. 2
    A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait.
  3. 3
    an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around) wordnet
  4. 4
    Any dedicated fan of something. broadly, informal

    "A bit of an eclipse groupie, he had paid the thirty guineas fee to join the BAA's first expedition, to Norway, in 1896."

  5. 5
    A group captain. slang

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From group + -ie (“person associated”). In the fan sense, from 1967.

Etymology 2

From group + -ie (“photograph”), by analogy with selfie, 2010s.

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