(treɪnspɒtəʳ) also train spotter also train-spotter
Word forms: plural trainspotters
1. countable noun
A trainspotter is someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations andrecording the numbers of the trains that they see.
[British]
2. countable noun
If you describe someone as a trainspotter, you think they are odd or boring because they are interested in knowing everything about aparticular subject, even very small, unimportant details.
[British, disapproval]
He's a rather over-serious disco trainspotter with a record collection instead ofa brain.
trainspotter in British English
or train spotter (ˈtreɪnˌspɒtə)
noun British
1.
someone who is very interested in trains and spends time going to stations and recording the numbers of the trains that they see
2. informal
someone who is considered odd or boring because he or she is interested in knowing everything about a particular subject, even very small, unimportant details
He's a rather over-serious disco trainspotter with a record collection instead ofa brain.