One Directioner

English

Alternative forms

• 1Der

Etymology

From One Direction +‎ -er.

Noun

One Directioner (plural One Directioners)

1. A member of the English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.
   • 2015, Simon Dawson, The Sty’s the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky, Orion Books, →ISBN:

     Should I strike up a conversation about Justin Bieber, I wondered? Or who her favourite One Directioner was?

   • 2017, David Nolan, The 1975: Love, Sex & Chocolate, Music Press, →ISBN:

     The situation didn’t appear to affect [Matty] Healy’s friendship with Harry [Styles]. In May he played a prank on the One Directioner for the benefit of Radio 1; […]

   • 2018, Leah Marie Brown, Badly Done, Emma Lee, Lyrical Press, →ISBN:

     I don’t know which One Directioner she favors (naughty Harry [Styles], with sweet Niall [Horan] coming in a photo-finish close second).

2. A fan of the English-Irish pop boy band One Direction.

   Synonym: Directioner

   • 2013 July 31, I. Burrell, “All publicity is good publicity, except where GQ and One Direction Fans are concerned”, in The Independent; quoted in Carol Dyhouse, Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire, Oxford University Press, 2017, →ISBN, page 194:

     A not dissimilar outburst of fury among One Directioners followed the airing of film-maker Daisy Asquith’s documentary, Crazy about One Direction, which was shown on British television (Channel 4) in August 2013, even though this aimed to give a voice to fans, and treated the subject of fandom sympathetically.

   • 2015, Galatia Kallitsi, ““Beautiful Childhood”: Images of Desirable Beauty Cultures among Children”, in Constantinos N. Phellas, editor, Revisiting Sexualities in the 21st Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:

     She showed me their first video clip and then I became a “One Directioner” myself. […] (Korina, 7 years old)

   • 2020, C. H. Mitford, Harry Styles (Scoop!: The Unauthorized Biography; issue #9), Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 14:

     One Directioners were at a fever pitch waiting for the second album.