groupie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹuːpi/

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• Rhymes: -uːpi
• Hyphenation: group‧ie

Etymology 1

From group +‎ -ie; from 1967.

Noun

groupie (plural groupies)

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.
   • 1999, Lauraine Leblanc, Pretty in Punk: Girl′s Gender Resistance in a Boy′s Subculture, published 2002, page 47:

     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.”

   • 2012, Ginger Voight, Groupie, unnumbered page:

     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.

2. (by extension, informal) Any dedicated fan of something.
   • 2019, S. James Gates Jr., Cathie Pelletier, Proving Einstein Right:

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

Synonyms

• (fan who seeks intimacy): band aid, band chick, band moll, band rat, snuff queen, starfucker

Derived terms

• supergroupie

Translations

type of fan

• Finnish: bändäri (fi)
• French: groupie (fr) f
• Swedish: groupie (sv)

Etymology 2

From group +‎ -ie, by analogy with selfie, 2010s.

Noun

groupie (plural groupies)

1. A group photo including the photographer; a group self-portrait.

Synonyms

• ussie

Etymology 3

Noun

groupie (plural groupies)

1. (military, slang) A group captain.
   • 1995, John D. Harvie, Missing in Action: An RCAF Navigator's Story, page 136:

     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.

Anagrams

• pirogue

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

groupie f (plural groupies)

1. groupie

Spanish

Noun

groupie f (plural groupies)

1. groupie