conventioneer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From convention + -eer.
Noun
[edit]conventioneer (plural conventioneers)
- A person attending a convention.
- 1990, Michael Garvey, Finding Fault, page 88:
- […] the zitfaced prom king, the booze-whacked conventioneer or the randy trucker plying some local bimbo with sloe gin fizzes.
- 2009 January 21, Francis X. Clines, “In Washington on Inauguration Day”, in The New York Times[1]:
- […] the throngs included tribes of American Indians celebrating […] like victorious conventioneers in their burnished regalia at a hotel party Monday night.