The withdrawal symptoms experienced by an American Idolfan after a season has ended. Usually accompanied by trying to find a fix from watching other Competition / Talent shows.
Guy 1: Man, Crag has been acting strung-out since Season 9 ended. So he's trying to ease the pain by watching Dancing with the Stars.
Guy 2: Hmm, Classic case of American Idol withdrawal.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)