groupie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait.
  3. Any dedicated fan of something. broadly,informal
    — A bit of an eclipse groupie, he had paid the thirty guineas fee to join the BAA's first expedition, to Norway, in 1896.
  4. A group captain. slang
    — 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.

词形变化

groupies plural groupies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
groupiedom groupieism supergroupie

词源

词源 1
From group + -ie (“person associated”). In the fan sense, from 1967.
词源 2
From group + -ie (“photograph”), by analogy with selfie, 2010s.
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