fanboy

noun fan·boy \ ˈfan-ˌbȯi \

|Updated on: 15 Jul 2018

Definition of fanboy

: a boy or man who is an extremely or overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something

Recent Examples of fanboy from the Web

The Red Hen is now being openly targeted and harassed by vile Trump fanboys.

— drew magary, GQ, "There Is Bravery in Each Other," 3 July 2018
Galeano, often called the poet laureate of football, wrote Soccer in Sun and Shadow as both a fanboy and a social critic of the game.

— lenora todaro, The Atlantic, "A World Cup Without Eduardo Galeano, Soccer’s Poet Laureate," 15 June 2018
As a bonus, this franchise doesn't come saddled with a fanboy contingent invested enough to label this a sacrilegious blight on their childhoods.

— brian lowry, CNN, "'Ocean's 8' delivers playful all-female spin on heist caper," 7 June 2018
With its gaping hood scoop and massive wing, which just may be large enough to fit the entire name boggle on it, the rally car looks like a toy car out of a fanboy’s wildest dream.

— robert duffer, chicagotribune.com, "2018 Subaru WRX STi Type RA boggles the mind as most expensive Subaru," 30 May 2018
By no means was Law — no one’s idea of a Pads shill or ever a fanboy draftnik/farm booster — alone in touting the Pads’ youth movement.

— tom krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Revisiting a Padres' draft-and-farm hype train," 11 June 2018
The movie wants to appeal to multiple generations of fanboy, but the whole thing depends on us all being hip to the same handful of inside jokes about a limited range of fairly obvious cultural touchstones.

— k. austin collins, HWD, "Review: Deadpool 2 Isn’t Nearly as Clever as It Thinks It Is," 15 May 2018
Infinity War follows the massive success of Marvel's Black Panther, a cultural phenomenon and fanboy darling that currently ranks as the top-grossing superhero film of all time in North America with $688 million in ticket sales.

— pamela mcclintock, Billboard, "Box Office: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Passes 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' With Record $250M U.S. Bow," 29 Apr. 2018
Ninja is currently the top video game streamer on the internet and one of his avid followers is Drake, who played the role of fawning fanboy to the gamer during their casual shooting-and-chatting session.

— ryan smith, Chicago Reader, "News / Technology / The Internet The nation's hottest entertainer right now is a suburban Chicago video game streamer named Ninja," 19 Mar. 2018

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