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Stampeder

Stampeder

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A player or fan of the Calgary Stampeders football team
  • proper noun
  • Canadian
: Stampeder
  • He became a dedicated Stampeder after attending his first game at McMahon Stadium.
  • Calgary Stampeders
  • CFL's Stampeders

Examples

  • Both the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders pulled out huge wins as pups on Sunday and will battle it out in Toronto...

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  • As a lifelong fan, she proudly wore her Calgary Stampeders jersey to every game.

  • After the victory, every Stampeders supporter celebrated in the streets of Calgary.

Surface Forms

Stampeder main

Morphology

Stampeder = stampede (opaque) = stampede + er

The form is built from 'stampede' + '-er', but the team-based meaning 'member, player, or supporter of the Calgary Stampeders' is a specialized proper-name sense that is not predictable from the literal base.

Etymology

The word Stampeder comes from the team's name Stampeders, which comes from the Calgary Stampede, a big rodeo and festival. The word 'stampede' means 'a sudden rush of animals', so a Stampeder is a player, member, or fan of that lively Calgary football team.