Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A boy or man who is ardently devoted to a single hobby or interest.
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- noun Someone (normally male) who is utterly
devoted to a single subject orhobby , often to the point where it is considered anobsession .
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Examples
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Well, every one except for the Saturday evening cocktail party for comic-book professionals, as I was but a crazed fanboy then ... though I'm not even sure whether the term fanboy had been invented yet.
River of Dreams scottedelman 2008
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Oh yes, this DIRECT fanboy is extremely upset that a copy of a copy of a reprint of a fax of the summary of a failed 20-year old proposal is again making the rounds at NASA.
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Feel free to quote me in fanboy rants or whatever.
Odin Sphere is Beautifully Bloated pabba 2010
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He will spark of such an argument via the use of ad hominem attacks (i.e. 'you're nothing but a fanboy' is a popular phrase) (or in this case repeated accusations that those contributing are "embittered feminists") with no substance or relevance to back them up as well as straw man arguments (i.e. continual redefining of what the discussion is actually about), which he uses to simply avoid addressing the essence of the issue.
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Feel free to quote me in fanboy rants or whatever.
Odin Sphere is Beautifully Bloated pabba 2010
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Celebrating the Chinese New Year (year of the rat) in fanboy style with Monty Python!
Year of the Rat: Monty Python’s Rat Tart Sketch » Fanboy.com 2008
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I know I made all of those jokes about Geriatric Jones but come May 22nd I get the feeling that this old dorky fanboy is standing on line waiting all day.
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"From first rude frame to lascivious last, Grindhouse guns to be the last word in fanboy fetishism," writes Nathan Lee in the Voice.
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See, Nick Cage, everyone's favorite insane celebrity fanboy, is making a push for a She-Hulk movie.
22nd February '07 flidgetjerome 2007
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You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy << Back to Article commentary Alt Text Commentary by Lore Sjöberg Miscellaneous You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy Lore Sjöberg 03.07.07 If you read video game message boards -- for instance, because you are trying to make yourself insane -- you'll notice the word fanboy being thrown around a lot.
john commented on the word fanboy
"Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join two items of equal syntactic importance. As an example, the traditional view holds that the English coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so (which form the mnemonic FANBOYS).
- Wikipedia
September 29, 2007
ecbrenner commented on the word fanboy
Someone so passionate about an element of geek culture that little else matters.
January 16, 2009