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groupie

noun

Definition of groupie

as in fan

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Recent Examples of groupie Like a lot of musicians, Aleister has to navigate an existence filled with booze, weed, groupies, the spotlight, entitled rock stars, family members who don’t understand the dream, and band dynamics. — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 Rodriguez, 35, will play Columbia, the tap-dancing groupie originally brought to the screen by Nell Campbell. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026 After starring in several successful rom-coms and earning a Golden Globe award and Oscar nomination for playing groupie Penny Lane in Almost Famous, Hudson has had her pick of roles (and notably turned down some big ones). — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Dec. 2025 The Chiefs’ cutest little groupie is 12 years old, wears designer clothing, has been to Paris Fashion Week, has more than 3 million followers on social media and is managed by her parents. — Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for groupie

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Noun

Jennifer Aniston is a fan of these classic sneakers, and so is our editor Ali Faccenda.

— Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Just days after multiple outlets reported that Lady Gaga and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, welcomed their first child together, fans now know the baby’s name.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of fan

Noun

The photographic record shows Wong arm-in-arm with numerous admirers, many of whom were her lovers.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
Llínas mugs the camera for laugh lines in the narration, rattles off a comically long list of Borges’ lovers, reveals halfway through that the score has been played, in part, off a toy xylophone.

— Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of lover

Noun

Abrams delivered a standout performance as an unhoused junkie thief in the critical and commercial hit that would go on to win an Oscar (Amy Madigan as best supporting actress).

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Clark is a baseball junkie who loves to dive into all these details.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of junkie

Noun

Slow Horses fanatics will recognize her as one of the veteran MI5 operatives stuck in the agency’s version of purgatory, known as Slough House.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2026
Nineteen fanatics, acting in the name of Islam, killed 2,997 innocent men, women and children in New York City, in Washington, and on airplanes turned into weapons of mass murder.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of fanatic

Noun

The problem with just arresting addicts is there’s nowhere to take them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Raised to be a Pentecostal minister, Ron Athey was speaking in tongues by the age of ten, a heroin addict by seventeen, and a performance artist by twenty-three.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of addict

Noun

What Cregger and co-writer Shay Hatten (both original devotees of the video game) have done is complete reinvention.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026
Casinos offer voluntary self-exclusion programs for compulsive gamblers; birth plans allow devotees of natural labor to deny their future selves an epidural.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of devotee

Noun

The person with the gun then pointed it at the vehicle's owner and her friend, and both robbers got in the vehicle and drove away, running over the friend's arm, the report says.

— arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 23 Sep. 2026
At the Hotel Bellagio, I was joined by a photographer, Yael, as well as a friend of mine named Belisario and his wife, Elizabeth, who had both jumped at the opportunity to enjoy the hotel restaurant’s air-conditioning.

— Belén Fernández, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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