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bandwagoner

noun

Etymology

From bandwagon + -er.

  1. derived from *weǵʰ-✻
  2. derived from *wagnaz✻
  3. derived from *wagn✻
  4. derived from *wagan✻
  5. borrowed from wagen
  6. compounded as bandwagon — “band + wagon”
  7. suffixed as bandwagoner — “bandwagon + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or…

    Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.

    • […] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the "bandwagon" were pathetic. "Not a man has spoken to him in two hours," announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly.
    • Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.

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