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• n  a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
  A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"--Winston Churchill
• s  marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea

• Blair, a hoola hoop fanatic for 14 years, set three world records: a mile run while doing a hoola hoop (7:47), a 10K while doing a hoola hoop (1:06:35) and doing the largest hoola .
• Such fanatics deserve to be ignored, not reported on.
• No doubt the potions were good Este Lauder was a quality fanatic but the saleslady was better.

• fiend
• fanatical
• overzealous
• rabid

News & Articles

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• Hi-quality photos of iPhone 5S display leak for the first time
  As the iPhone 5S nears mass production ahead of its launch this coming fall, leaks will undoubtedly kick into high gear. We saw the first few images of the completed display assembly for Apple’s iPhone 5S leak earlier this week, and now the first set of high-quality photos of the new iPhone’s panel have been published by Fanatic Fone. The high-resolution photos show the iPhone 5S display ...
  June 19, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News
• High-quality photos of iPhone 5S display leak for the first time
  As the iPhone 5S nears mass production ahead of its launch this coming fall, leaks will undoubtedly kick into high gear. We saw the first few images of the completed display assembly for Apple’s iPhone 5S leak earlier this week, and now the first set of high-quality photos of the new iPhone’s panel have been published by Fanatic Fone. The high-resolution photos show the iPhone 5S display ...
  June 19, 2013 - BGR News via Yahoo! News
• Fire at The Fanatic leads to dead air for sports broadcaster
  Fire at The Fanatic leads to dead air for sports broadcaster. (Photo courtesy 97.5 Fanatic's Facebook)
  June 15, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Woody Allen in guardian.co.uk
  I have no idea how to direct an opera,Allen said. "I like opera, but I'm not a fanatic. I was cajoled and badgered into it."
• Dana Carvey in USA Today
  I'm a movie fanatic,Carvey said. "I occasionally watch movies on my cellphone, but how are you supposed to be afraid of King Kong when his head is the size of a Chiclet?"
• Michael Mukasey in CNN
  They are men with the cold-eyed certainty of the fanatic, prepared to board an aircraft with the necessary ingredients and equipment to construct and detonate a device that would bring about not only the loss of their own life but also all of those... Peter Wright http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wright&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG7SjYMxux-wwTEj1AuMz6kDzAcJA 940 News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.940news.com/nouvelles.php%3Fcat%3D24%26id%3D40370&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGvkXLNjx8nFOIxeYBRDGW2LKCsSg Apr 3, 2006 36253 47019 fanatical Thirty-five years ago, our foreign adversaries saw widespread devastation as a deterrent. Today, our fanatical enemies see it as a divine fulfillment," Mukasey said.