Groyper
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A member of the far-right and ethnonationalist America First group led by Nicholas Fuentes (b. 1998). US
"Nick Fuentes, an attendee of the Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville and host of the podcast America First, is also one of the leaders of the Groypers, or the Groyper Army, a White nationalist group named after the meme of Pepe the Frog, which was co-opted in 2016 as an antisemitic symbol."
- 2 A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, based on Pepe the Frog. Internet
- 3 A person who associates with any far right or alt-right groups. broadly
- 4 Alternative letter-case form of Groyper (“member of certain political groups”). US, alt-of
"Slating Trump to speak at [Madison Square Garden]^([sic]), putting ‘poisoning the blood’ in his speeches, setting up Odal runes at CPAC, etc. In a few years, one of those groypers [slang for white supremacists]^([sic]) might even quietly bring me back in, with a stern warning for me to ‘be more careful next time’.”"
Example
More examples"Nick Fuentes, an attendee of the Unite the Right demonstration in Charlottesville and host of the podcast America First, is also one of the leaders of the Groypers, or the Groyper Army, a White nationalist group named after the meme of Pepe the Frog, which was co-opted in 2016 as an antisemitic symbol."
Etymology
From the groyper meme.
Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015. A common hypothesis seems to be a combination of goy (“non-Jewish person; Gentile”) and griper (“person who complains naggingly or frequently”). Other conjectures include an alteration of grope (“touch sexually”), as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here. The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a cartoon frog distinct from Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.
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