Boyzoner

English

Etymology

From Boyzone +‎ -er.

Noun

Boyzoner (plural Boyzoners)

1. A member of the Irish boy band Boyzone.
   • 1995 March 31, Carlos, “Hot Pop: Boyzone Clear That Rumour”, in Evening Mail, page 46:

     “Yes, of course, there is an element of competition,” says Boyzoner Keith [Duffy]. “But we don’t dislike the Manchester rivals [Take That].

   • 1998 July 5, “Bewitched”, in Super Scene (The Sun-Herald), page 3:

     They are: Sinaid O’Caroll (19), Lindsay Armaou (17), and 18-year-old twins Edele and Keavy Lynch (who are the sisters of Boyzoner, Shane [Lynch]).

   • 1998 October 25, Ian Hyland, “The Diary”, in Sunday Mirror, page 15:

     “Bono’s a good mate now, we’ve had some mad nights,” says head Boyzoner Ronan Keating, who plans to have his ring mounted as soon as he returns to his new house in Ireland.

   • 1999 June 24, Graham Springett, “My only request is not to hear it”, in The Feltham Chronicle, page 34:

     Boyzone (or rather, their management) have seen fit to release a greatest hits album. If they’d waited, they could have got a much cheaper publicity boost by waiting for Boyzoner Stephen Gately to come out.

   • 2000 July 14, Gary Shipes, “(Teen) pop goes the world”, in The Stuart News, page D5:

     Boyzoner Stephen Gately even became teen pop’s first openly acknowledged homosexual.

   • 2002 November 22, ES Magazine, page 6:

     The event brought out Stephen Gately, the former Boyzoner, as well as old party hands Jemma Kidd, Nadia Swarovski, Lady Isabella Hervey and not one but two Atomic Kittens.

   • 2003 February 28 – March 6, Metro Life Magazine (Evening Standard), page 26:

     Kay Murphy and former Boyzoner Stephen Gately, who ditches the boyband look in favour of the loincloth attire for his stage debut as Joseph.

   • 2003 October 28, Josh Sims, “Why they’re all glad to be G-A-Y”, in The Independent, number 5,313, page 38:

     It [G-A-Y] was where ex-Boyzoner Stephen Gately played after coming out.

   • 2003 November 2, The Independent on Sunday, number 715, page 54:

     The former Boyzoner Ronan Keating is Paul Merton’s (above) first guest in a new series of shows in which celebs discuss the things they hate.

   • 2004 August 6, “Boucher a breath of fresh air”, in Encore! (Daily Herald-Tribune), page 9:

     Well, former Boyzoner [Ronan] Keating has recaptured the joy of living with this disc’s opening title-track.

   • 2004 August 27, Evening Standard, page 57:

     Jodie Marsh and ex-Boyzoner Shane Lynch are among the “celebrities” involved in Car of the Year 2004 (from 9am, UKTV People, and all day Saturday and Sunday), in which we get the chance to vote for our favourite cars in four categories.