: a boy or man who is an extremely or overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something
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Jason Momoa isn’t afraid to be a fanboy — especially when the star in question is Meryl Streep!
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Bailey Richards, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Duffy is hilariously literate, an opinionated fanboy ready to defend Nirvana against naysayers.
—Claude Peck, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
With the boisterous fanboy Conan O’Brien at the helm, the show leaned into the kind of excess the production tended to avoid during the snarkier rein of Jimmy Kimmel.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Musk’s army of fanboys on X was as effusive as ever, but outside the hard-core Tesla bubble, the SUV was met with a flood of Nazi jokes following Musk’s Sieg heil–ish arm gesture at Trump’s inauguration.
—Patrick George, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Bailey Richards, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Duffy is hilariously literate, an opinionated fanboy ready to defend Nirvana against naysayers.
—Claude Peck, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
With the boisterous fanboy Conan O’Brien at the helm, the show leaned into the kind of excess the production tended to avoid during the snarkier rein of Jimmy Kimmel.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Musk’s army of fanboys on X was as effusive as ever, but outside the hard-core Tesla bubble, the SUV was met with a flood of Nazi jokes following Musk’s Sieg heil–ish arm gesture at Trump’s inauguration.
—Patrick George, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Fanboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fanboy. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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