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单词 bandwagoner
释义

bandwagoner

English

Etymology

From bandwagon + -er.

Noun

bandwagoner (plural bandwagoners)

  1. Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful.
    • 1911, Franklin Hichborn, Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911, page 21:
      [] 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.
    • 2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times:
      Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.

Synonyms

  • bandwagoneer
  • bandwagoning
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