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In some senses, groupie is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
famous, kind, most
VERB + GROUPIE
call
GROUPIE + NOUN
providin, role
PREP.
around, from, with
noun
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.
2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock, Spin, page 102, Although Pamela Des Barres, rock′s most famous groupie, was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There was no hierarchy. The groupies were not considered less than the musicians. We were muses.”
Any dedicated fan of something.
A bit of an eclipse groupie, he had paid the thirty guineas fee to join the BAA's first expedition, to Norway, in 1896.
A group captain.
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.
noun
A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait.
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 providin
Wiktionary2000 October, The 100 Sleaziest Moments in Rock, Spin, page 102, Although Pamela Des Barres, rock′s most famous groupie, was passed around like a loose joint at a be-in, she maintains today, “There wa
WiktionaryThe groupie experience from what I′ve seen is quite similar to the experiences I′ve had as the “fat girl,” who had the good looking guy give her attention behind closed doors but never had the opportu
WiktionaryYou didn't just call me a groupie, did you?
Tatoeba · #9057003I was kind of a groupie for them.
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In some senses, groupie is marked as informal, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.