female fan

collocation in English

meaningsoffemaleandfan

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female
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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fan
noun[C]
uk
/fæn/us
/fæn/
someone who admires and supports a person, sport, sports ...
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(Definition offemaleandfanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffemale fan

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A groupie is generally considered a devotedfemalefanof a band or musical performer.
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According to the police, the main suspect is afemalefanwho was arrested after the game.
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The former proved much more influential onfemalefanstyles.
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During the performance, he calls afemalefanfrom the audience and sings to her as they dance seductively.
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In similar terminology, afemalefanwho hangs around rodeo cowboys is called a buckle bunny, in reference to large belt-buckles given as awards.
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In discussions of female fans, he equivocates; and here the essentialist cracks in his argument begin to show.
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In many ways, the music press represents female fans in similar terms to female artists, emphasising the same issues of credibility and authenticity.
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Similarly, female fans will be marked as, for example, ' the overwhelmingly female audience'.
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The music press often fail to acknowledge that female fans of 'serious' rock music exist at all.
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Other female fans embrace the use of the term as a way of making a distinction between a puck bunny and a truefemalefanof the sport.
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Whilst norms of masculinity might be to blame for this situation in the case of male fans, more evidence is needed to prove this because female fans are also belittled.
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I wish to show how female fans are trivialised and ridiculed by dividing them into four categories: teenyboppers, 'serious music' fans, women in subcultures, and 'groupies'.
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The sexist discourse operating with respect to female performers makes it clear that the world of 'serious' music is ideologically a very masculine one, and that female fans are unwelcome.
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It was these traits that helped garner much public interest in the young actor, especially amongst young female fans.
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