shoegazern.
/ˈʃuːˌɡeɪzə/, U.S. /ˈʃuˌɡeɪzər/ Originally British. Frequently depreciative.
A performer or fan of the style of popular music known as shoegazing (see shoegazing n.).
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1991 New Musical Express 8 June 4 Moose, the capital-based ‘shoegazers’, release a second EP..on June 17.
1991 Time Out 20 Nov. 94/1 If you're a committed shoe-gazer I'm sure you'll like it.
1994 Impact Oct. 13/3 We were lumped in with that shoegazing thing, but a lot of those bands changed, or try hard not to be shoegazers.
1997 N. Kelly in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) xviii. 286 My tastes are diverse but I draw the line at guitar rock. That stuff is for shoegazers who can't get on down.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 11 June 60/2 Retreating behind ambient-influenced walls of sound seems to cycle in and out with the economy—remember the British shoegazers of the early nineties?
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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