"bandwagoner" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bandwagon + -er.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1911, Franklin Hichborn, Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911, page 21:",
          "text": "[…] a lonely figure was pointed out by a one-time machine follower, whose efforts to get aboard the \"bandwagon\" were pathetic. \"Not a man has spoken to him in two hours,\" announced the would-be bandwagoner feverishly.",
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          "ref": "2015 July 8, Jon Caramanica, “Review: On ‘Communion,’ Years & Years Turns the Familiar Into Something of Its Own”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.",
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        "Someone who supports or participates in something only because it is popular or successful."
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          "popular",
          "popular"
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          "successful"
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        {
          "word": "bandwagoning"
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          "word": "bandwagoneer"
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  "word": "bandwagoner"
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  "etymology_text": "From bandwagon + -er.",
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          "text": "Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers.",
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