fanboy
Speech parts
1. fanboy - Noun
2. fanboy - Verb
Meaning
fanboy (plural fanboys)
(fandom slang, often derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
fanboy (third-person singular simple present fanboys, present participle fanboying, simple past and past participle fanboyed)
(fandom slang, intransitive) To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
Examples
There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.
From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
Before anyone starts to complain, this isn’t some fanboy rant.
Depp made the classic fanboy mistake of focusing only on the glamorous, external trappings of his heroes.
However, as time has progressed and Bayless has grown more and more desperate and intolerable, his behavior while portraying his Brady fanboy character has grown increasingly bizarre.