Definition of fanboy
: a boy or man who is an extremely or overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something
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Whether his country's Supreme Court agrees - or thinks banning a fascistic party led by a Nazi fanboy is the surest route back to sobriety - will soon be seen.
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My son is completely a hardcore fanboy of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, so the opportunity to play as Jack Sparrow is pretty darn exciting to him.
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First Known Use of fanboy
1919
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