One Directioner

plural One Directioners · alternative 1Der

1. A member of the English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.

   Should I strike up a conversation about Justin Bieber, I wondered? Or who her favourite One Directioner was?

   2015, Simon Dawson, The Sty’s the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky, Orion Books, →ISBN

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   The situation didn’t appear to affect [Matty] Healy’s friendship with Harry [Styles]. In May he played a prank on the One Directioner for the benefit of Radio 1; […]

   2017, David Nolan, The 1975: Love, Sex & Chocolate, Music Press, →ISBN

   I don’t know which One Directioner she favors (naughty Harry [Styles], with sweet Niall [Horan] coming in a photo-finish close second).

   2018, Leah Marie Brown, Badly Done, Emma Lee, Lyrical Press, →ISBN

2. A fan of the English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.

   One Directioners were at a fever pitch waiting for the second album.

   2020, C. H. Mitford, Harry Styles (Scoop!: The Unauthorized Biography; issue #9), Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 14

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   A not dissimilar outburst of fury among One Directioners followed the airing of film-maker Daisy Asquith’s documentary, Crazy about One Direction, which was shown on British television (Channel 4) in August 2013, even though this aimed to give a voice to fans, and treated the subject of fandom sympathetically.

   2013 July 31, I. Burrell, “All publicity is good publicity, except where GQ and One Direction Fans are concerned”, in The Independent; quoted in Carol Dyhouse, Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire, Oxford University Press, 2017, →ISBN, page 194

   She showed me their first video clip and then I became a “One Directioner” myself. […] (Korina, 7 years old)

   2015, Galatia Kallitsi, ““Beautiful Childhood”: Images of Desirable Beauty Cultures among Children”, in Constantinos N. Phellas, editor, Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 69

   Synonyms: Directioner