Rollermania
nounEtymology From roller + -mania.
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Historical A 1970s phenomenon of extreme or hysterical adulation for the Scottish boy band Bay City Rollers.
- Everyone remembers Beatlemania. The Fab Four created a fan frenzy wherever they appeared. Yet a decade after their 1960s' peak, an equally hysterical teenage phenomenon gripped Britain. It was called Rollermania.2014 May 3, Dominic Midgley, “Rocked by Rollermania: The Fab Four and their fame frenzy”, in Daily Express: