velcroid

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Definition of velcroid

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noun

(slang)One who stays physically near to an influential person, especially in an effort to increase their own media exposure.

“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.”

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From Velcro + -oid, from the idea that such a person clings to another as if with Velcro.

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