groupie

1. 1.

   an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around)

   Broaderfan

Other forms of groupie

plural

groupies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about groupie

What does groupie mean?

groupie means "an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around)".

How many syllables are in groupie?

groupie has 2 syllables: grou-pie. The stress falls on "grou". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹupi/.

Is groupie a common word?

groupie is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.