groupies

noun

plural of groupie
as in fans

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  1. fans
  2. lovers
  3. devotees
  4. friends
  5. fanatics
  6. enthusiasts
  7. addicts
  8. junkies
Noun
  • As whole house fans and swamp coolers can suck additional pollutants inside, the department recommends using air purifiers or air conditioners as alternatives when possible.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • Some disappointed fans lingered near the barricades and boundaries police had set up and were enforcing.
    — Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026
Definition of fans
Noun
  • Wine lovers should consider hitting some stops on the Great River Road Wine Trail, especially Danzinger Vineyards on the bluff in Alma.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • The track went viral on TikTok earlier this year, with longtime lovers of the musician remembering the hit, while younger fans may have discovered it for the first time.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of lovers
Noun
  • For prog rock devotees, the personnel alone reads like a dream lineup.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 1 July 2026
  • Her death came seven months after devotees had marked Khadijah’s 90th birthday.
    — Julie Carr Smyth, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Definition of devotees
Noun
  • Photos of wallets, textiles, sports equipment, photos, jewelry, signs, flags, quilts, stuffies, toys and camp trunks filled the page as strangers banded together in the comments sections, tagging potential rightful owners or friends with any leads.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Lotsof and his friends were shocked to find their cravings had vanished.
    — Gavin Escott, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Definition of friends
Noun
  • For midcentury fanatics, look to Design Within Reach this week for up to 30% off thousands of icons, including these Rey dining chairs.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026
  • Together, the band brings to life a mythic world of ancient heroes and villains, attracting an excited audience of headbangers and fantasy fanatics, many of whom show up in costume.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 29 June 2026
Definition of fanatics
Noun
  • The Midjourney company does not promote their device for routine screening of early cancers, although some online enthusiasts earnestly hope this will be the case soon.
    — Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The mystery of her disappearance has drawn attention from true crime enthusiasts for years.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of enthusiasts
Noun
  • In the movie, set in the rolling hills of Meeks’s native central Ohio, a group of addicts get a second (or third or fourth) chance to make right in their lives.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • His job was to collect money owed to that gang, and, after kicking down the doors of dealers and addicts, he got caught and sent upstate.
    — Rufus Walker, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026
Definition of addicts
Noun
  • Compared with protein, which lends itself to narratives of growth—more grams, more gains—fibre is a bit of a hard sell, likelier to be espoused by women in sensible shoes than by fitness junkies on Twitch.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • What has changed in recent years, however, is that prediction markets are no longer an obscure pastime enjoyed by political junkies.
    — Matt Motta, Fortune, 23 June 2026
Definition of junkies
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