What is Trainspotter?
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A person who can sucessfully identify obscure music a DJ plays. A hardcore trainspotter can take it a step further and identify the source of obscure samples.
Trainspotter: "Thats track B off of the first pressing of So and So record"
Friend: "You're such a trainspotter."
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someone who obsessively collects bits of useless information
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The trainspotter watched Beat the Geeks and took notes over questions missed.
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The term 'trainspotter' stems from exactly that......he who spots trains. A strange affliction. These are characteristically 30 - 40 year old men who still live with their mothers and quite possibly indulge in dubious sexual practices involving them. Gathering on station platforms in all weathers and wearing old anoraks and bobbly hats, they note the make, model and characteristics of each train that passes. Thus 'trainspotter' has come to mean any obsessed character who insists on talking about nothing but their chosen specialist subject. In my experience, the 'trainspotter' or 'pothouse' almost always manifests itself at the aftershow hospitality.
trainspotter as - "you are a trainspotting nutter" - In other words, someone who is psychological unstable.
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4.
Somebody who mainlines heroin.
5.
Trainspotter: 1) someone who logs in train numbers; basically a derogatory term one gives to a person of uselessness and hopelessness ; a Sad-ass square
(captain of team one) okay my pick; er il have jimmy. (captain of team two) Oh mannnn i guess that leaves me with christian - we cant use him he's a trainspotter
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–noun
1. a person who hovers around a performing
"yo,dj, that was a dope set you dropped last week, I heard such and such play the same set last night at(insert club name here), he is such a trainspotter !!!"
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7.
Person who spots trains for a hobby. Usually the preserve of sad anoraks.
"When I was younger I had this really sad trainspotter approach to bands and collecting records."
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