velcroid
English edit
Etymology edit
Velcro + -oid, from the idea that such a person clings to another as if with Velcro.
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Noun edit
velcroid (plural velcroids)
- (slang) One who stays physically near to an influential person, especially in an effort to increase their own media exposure.
- 1993, Jack McKinney, Hostile Takeover, Del Rey, →ISBN:
- She'd no sooner compliantly strapped herself into an out-of-the-way plush chair than Takuma Tanabe and an entourage of staff velcroids entered.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:velcroid.