fanboy

fanboy

1. noun A male who is very interested in or devoted to an element of pop culture (such as a celebrity, athlete, book series, TV show, band, or movie). My brother Eric is such a "Star Wars" fanboy that his voicemail message is "This isn't the Eric you're looking for," like he's Obi-Wan Kenobi!
2. verb To express excessive glee and excitement over a person or thing that one likes. My brother totally fanboyed when he met his favorite football player.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • angle
  • angling
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • fire and brimstone
  • bummer
References in periodicals archive
And in last week's poll we asked the most fundamental of all (gulp) fanboy questions: "Are you a Mac or PC?" (dum dum duuuum)
Sharing an old picture with Jackson on Instagram, Manish reminisced his fanboy moment and wrote, "Years ago before I had launched Manish Malhotra label.
Singer-actor Mark Bautista could not help but fanboy over American singer-songwriters David Pomeranz and Melissa Manchester when he met up with them recently.
Summary: The film works as an unapologetic fanboy tribute to the Indian Prime Minister
I'll admit, it was a day spent keeping a lid on my fanboy excitement while trying to maintain my journalistic integrity - I hope I managed.
I've always been a Netflix fanboy. Having content that is watchable by 117 million subscribers worldwide is just a dream come true for me.
I always end up sounding like a Duracell bunny fanboy but with a career that stretches across music and stage work she's never released a duff note in her life.
He was in full (http://www.ibtimes.com/outlander-star-caitriona-balfe-says-fans-ask-her-all-time-2499297) fanboy mode, even wearing a shirt with the Netflix show's logo as he posed with the Eleven actress.
Earlier this month, thousands of fanboy voices cried out in terror over the news that Marvel Studios would be skipping San Diego Comic-Con for the first time since 2011.
Paul Paul PAUL Film4 9PM Comic-book nerds Simon Pegg (above) and Nick Frost are waylaid by a little grey alien called Paul in a coarse closeencounter fanboy comedy that's as silly as Spaceballs and as sweet as Starman.
Apple fanboys strike again A Chinese programmer took romance to a new level, a fanboy level, when proposed to his girlfriend in public......wait for it.....surrounded by 99 iPhones!
But before you feel too sorry for Sean Bean, this really bad sequel still played to a sell-out fanboy audience at Cineworld Broad St on Wednesday.
When Homeland returns for a second season this Sunday night, it will be able to boast a bevy of Emmy's and claim Barack Obama as a fanboy. But perhaps its most noted distinction is indirectly leading to the creation of America's new catchphrase"Mandy Patinkin, holla." As I'm sure you know, Homeland is an adaptation of the Israeli TV series Hatufim, Prisoners of War, and is only one in a flood of programming coming out of the Israeli-Hollywood pipeline.
He's invented some very brave new worlds and after I saw Lord Of The Rings, I became a complete fanboy of the world Peter created for all of us to enjoy."
@jdalrymple (Jim Dalrymple) Apple fanboy: Some one who likes Apple products.