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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fanboy

"young male enthusiast," by 1988, from fan (n.2) + boy. Fangirl attested from 1989.

Wiktionary
fanboy

n. (label en fandom) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).

Wikipedia
Fanboy (comics)

Fanboy is the title of a six issue comic book miniseries by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragonés which was published by DC Comics in 1999.

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Fanboy (disambiguation)

A fanboy (or fangirl) is a person considered to belong to one or more fandoms to a point of obsession.

Fanboy or fanboys may also refer to:

  • Fanboys (film), a 2009 American comedy film
  • Fanboys (mnemonic), a grammar mnemonic for the coordinating conjunctions
  • Fan Boy, a character from the X-Statix comic book series
  • Fanboy, a character from the Freakazoid TV series
  • Fanboy, a character from Fanboy and Chum Chum
  • Coordinate conjunctions, which are commonly referred to by their first letter (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so)
  • Fanboy, a comic book miniseries
  • Fanboy, a 1973 magazine created by the cartoonists Jay Lynch and Glenn Bray.
  • Fanboy, an animated short for Nickelodeon's Random! Cartoons which later spawned the TV show, Fanboy & Chum Chum

Usage examples of "fanboy".

I had done some interview work for fanzines as a nerdy fanboy in Augusta Georgia.

He's an alien from an interstellar civilization far more highly developed and advanced than our own, but not in that creepy sci-fi fanboy kinda way.

He was plainly embarrassed by his earlier show of fanboy enthusiasm, and was now over-compensating for it wildly.

Her earlier dismissal of him as a self-aggrandizing lowlife, a death-and-destruction fanboy, of whom she had met far too many, now seemed facile: there was something other than the normal mercenary brutalism going on behind that strange dark face, and Dulcie had to admit she was beginning to get interested.

The NERVA fanboys and fangirls, of which I confess to being one, wanted to play around with possible nuclear rocket landers.

On one level it's the story of three fanboys and a neophyte collector attending a comic convention, but when you add in the fact that gods are real in this world, the humor level quickly escalates.