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An unquestioning supporter of an idea or opinion as expressed by a particular person, organization, etc.
‘from your posts, it's obvious that you are a highly partisan dittohead unable to think for yourself’
‘If there were any dittoheads in attendance, they remained quiet, being clearly outnumbered.’
‘I think you have to be brain dead, as all dittoheads are, to believe the propaganda from the right.’
‘It must have been because he liked it so much: like I said, only in the mind of a dittohead.’
‘He is supposed to be allowed to brainwash his 20 million dittoheads daily without interference.’
‘She was obviously a true-believing dittohead and really looked to him for wisdom.’
‘Roger is presented as a babbling, right-wing dittohead.’
‘This was the kind of hysterical trash you would expect dittoheads to spout, not hugely influential liberal intellectuals.’
‘Actually, I can only think that the disturbances must produce a huge headache for the dittoheads.’
‘Go back to your dittohead hate radio and spare us your ignorant fascist tirades.’
‘That doesn't mean I'm religious, that I'm homophobic, or that I'm a dittohead.’
‘Unfortunately, touching this issue at all is toxic, since many assume you are some sort of dittohead for regarding it as a valid policy concern.’
Origin
1990s: from ditto and -head, with reference to fans of the US conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh, who would often begin their calls to his program with expressions based on the word 'ditto'.