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词组 groupie; groupy
释义 groupie; groupy
noun
  1. a girl who trades her sexual availability to rock groups and musicians in exchange for hanger-on status US
    • They’re called Groupies and can be found on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, on Macdougal Street around the Night Owl Cafe, or on Carnaby Street in London. The run of the mill Groupie has long blonde hair and heavily made-up eyes. — The Berkeley Barb, p. 5, 2 September 1966
    • Kiss, 1969: “Groupie glossary”
    • Like a groupie who gets her hots not from being fucked by a rock star but from the image of herself getting fucked by a star[.] — Screw, p. 8, 24 November 1969
    • — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 93, 1971
    • The little blonde groupie with the film crew! You think he sodomized her? — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 54, 1971
    • Gertrude the Groupie was a rock ‘n roll fan who stood by the stage door. — Shel Silverstein, Roland The Roadie And Gertrude The Groupie, 1973
    • There you will rub shoulders with freaks, groupies, and liberated types of assorted colors, sizes, and styles. — Bernhardt J. Hurwood, The Sensuous New York, p. 34, 1973
    • That night I was twenty-three and a daughter of Hollywood, alive with groupie fervor, wanting to fuck my way through rock’n’roll[.] — Eve Babitz, L.A. Woman, p. 15, 1982
    • Knopfler weighs in as a heavier catch on the groupie fish scale[.] — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 11, 1986
    • The really famous groupies were extremely tough and unpleasant. — Nick Kent, quoted in Waiting For The Sun, p. 262, 1996
    • Of all the vairous shatterlings of the candy-asssed world of glam rock, perhaps none is still as interesting as groupies. — Editors of Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 84, 1997
    • PENNY: “Groupies” sleep with rock stars because they want to be near someone famous. We are here because of the music. We are Band Aids. — Almost Famous, 2000
  2. a follower or hobbyist devoted to a pre-eminent person within a given field, or to a genre or subject type US, 1967
    An extension of the previous sense, this usage is not restricted to rock groups or music, nor is there a suggestion that sex is a prerequisite; the tone may be derogatory, jocular or ironic.
    • “Any station groupies with tits that big?” pondered Lieutenant Grimsley[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Choirboys, p. 370, 1975
    • After two productions at the National Theatre (“I’m a Peter Hall groupie”) the parts are more important than the place. — Sunday Telegraph, 1 July 1979
    • A thrilled female De Lorean trial groupie jostled her way through the wedge of TV cameramen and news photographers to a better vantage point to proclaim, "Yeah, John!" — United Press International, 17 August 1984
    • A younger generation knows her as the witch in “Rosemary’s Baby,” for which she won an Academy Award; the funeral groupie in “Harold and Maude”[.] — New York Times, p. 28, 11 November 1984
    • She wondered if cop groupies out at the Polo Lounge would go for Gary Hammond or think he was impersonating a police officer. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 88, 1991
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