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fangboy

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English

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Etymology

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From fang +‎ boy.

Noun

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fangboy (plural fangboys)

  1. (informal, humorous or derogatory) A male vampire.
    • 2000, Ray Garton, Resurrecting Ravana[1], page 175:
      “Hey, fangboy!” Buffy snapped.
    • 2010, Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie, Crusade[2], page 45:
      Skye had paled, frightened, as well she might be—she was being ordered to fight vampires without benefit of the elixir. Holgar had appeared to take the news in stride, declaring that with or without the elixir, he was glad for the chance to “rip some fangboys apart.”
    • 2011, Erica Hayes, Blood Cursed[3], page 8:
      Beside her, a dark-eyed fangboy in leather pants and no shirt winked at me, his tangled dreadlocks a shock of dusty blue.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fangboy.