Backup dancer – a man who is trying to enter the limelight even though he is simply someone’s side-man.Not considered part of the main crew or ensemble, he is a simply a backup dancer.
Whilst backup dancers tend to be attention seekers, they are best ignored
“Oi Crispy Grant, how you gonna come flex round my hood when you iz just a backup dancer?”
Someone who's just a complete twat, so annoying, attention-seeking, wants to be in the centre of everything but they can't really succeed in doing this. Originated from the song 'shutup by stormzy'
Backup dancer came up about 2014 when I kept having friends bring these randoms out them. These people tend to not know they are backup dancers. They generally bring nothing to the table, occasionally they have money but 9 times they are just here to make you look good. They are sometimes mistaken for acquaintances but normally you don't know much about they. After a while they graduate from backup dancing to actually friends.
