fan club

noun

1. a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.

fan club

noun

1. an organized group of admirers of a particular pop singer, film star, etc

2. informal,  to approve of someone strongly

Word History and Origins

Origin of fan club¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

As the brokerage focused more on active investors, some coalesced into a kind of fan club for the company and its leader.

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In March 1995, the 23-year-old Tejano singer was gunned down inside a motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, who had been accused of embezzling money from Quintanilla.

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And it’s both interesting and heartbreaking to see that decades later she still feels the need to defend her choice to leave public life — even more so because we learn that her mother, Beverly, who ran her fan club and was often in the front row at her live shows, didn’t understand why her daughter would leave behind so many “golden opportunities.”

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That’s when Downton and his little Vanderbilt fan club tuned into their weekly football game and found themselves glued to one of the greatest upsets in college football history.

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We’re on tour and people in fan club T-shirts are asking us why we’re on tour.

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