velcroid

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounvelcroid (plural velcroids)

plural velcroids

  1. slangOne 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.

    1993, Jack McKinney, Hostile Takeover, Del Rey, →ISBN

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

velcroid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/velcroid

MLA

“velcroid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/velcroid. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “velcroid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/velcroid.

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