Someone with an irrational love of, or fetish for, weaponry (especially firearms). From the Greek "hoplon" meaning armaments, and "philia" meaning love or intense friendship.
Watch out for that weird guy with the NRA Sticker on his 4x4, he looks like he might be a hoplophile!
by Norman T. Choir December 18, 2011
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by hoplophile January 8, 2009
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Hoplophile
• HOPLOPHILIA
• Hoplophiliac
• Homophile
• halophile
• hoplophobe
• hippophile
• Hobophile
• hodophile
• Holophillia
by ILikeSayingBenisForNoReason August 1, 2020
Get the Hoplophile mug.Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer are classic examples of hoplophobes, whose blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution would make our Founding Fathers roll in their collective graves.
by Chipperman October 14, 2004
Get the hoplophobe mug.An irrational fear of weapons, generally guns, usually occuring as a result of a liberal upbringing or the fact that the person is just a wimp in general. Rather than deal with the fear said hoplophobe will assign human characteristics to a weapon ie "guns are evil" or "guns kill" to justify the fear rather than deal with the core problem of being a sissy.
Due to his aversion to weapons, all the the police could do for young Seth the hoplophobe was chalk his cold dead body out on the floor as he had no defense for the thug that broke into his one bedroom apartment in San Fran, the policed noted the irony in the fact that the killer had scored three hits in the "O" portion of Seth's OBAMA 08 T-shirt.
by DVick October 22, 2008
Get the hoplophobe mug.A person who romanticizes or fetishizes homosexual relationship/couples/or romances. The person doesn't necessarily have to be homosexual themselves, on the contrary they tend to be heterosexuals that enjoy relationships between people of the opposite gender.
That straight guy fetishizes lesbian couples, he's a homophile.
That girls is a yaoi fangirl, she reads fanfiction about gay couples.
That girls is a yaoi fangirl, she reads fanfiction about gay couples.
by correctorism August 29, 2013
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n. a person who can not stop playing Halo
n. a person who can not stop playing Halo
"I ate this pretzel with so much salt and it didn't make me feel weird!"
"Dude, you're like a halophile!"
"I played Halo for the duration of summer vacation with no breaks!"
"Dude, you're a Halophile"
"Dude, you're like a halophile!"
"I played Halo for the duration of summer vacation with no breaks!"
"Dude, you're a Halophile"
by the pwn3r December 20, 2005
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