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camp follower

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a camp follower
someone who strongly supports a person or group although they are not a member of an official organization. The campaign for real ale had gathered quite a number of camp followers.
See also: camp

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For his newfound enthusiasm, he was labeled by some intellectual colleagues on the Old Left (many of whom were beginning their journeys to the right) as a camp follower of the protest movement.
Novelist Marv Gold pays close attention to historic details as he tells the story of Hannibal through the eyes of his mistress Pilar (a royal camp follower and trained assassin).
The Empress of San Francisco, camp followers, and all others whose parodies are more outrageous than real are basically free to `get away' with what they're doing because a sense of theatricality has been built into their performance as `drag queens,'" Thompson wrote.
 
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