Meaning of groupie | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait.
3. Any dedicated fan of something.
   broadly, informal
4. A group captain.
   slang

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Examples

“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.””

“The 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 opportunity to be the gal on his arm, and it is that emotional integrity I brought to the book.”

“A bit of an eclipse groupie, he had paid the thirty guineas fee to join⟳ the BAA's first expedition, to Norway, in 1896.”

“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.”

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