fellow traveller

noun

Etymology

For sense 2: calque of Russian попутчик (poputčik).

  1. calqued from попутчик

Definitions

  1. One who travels together with another.

    • The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.
  2. One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it

    One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; especially a Communist sympathizer.

    • Near-synonym: camp follower

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