bandwagoner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bandwagoner (plural bandwagoners)
- 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[1], 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[2]:
- Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.