Citations:Cumbercollective

Proper noun: "(slang) the fans of actor Benedict Cumberbatch taken as a group"

 * 2013, "Hot & Hotter", The Telegraph (Calcutta, India), 19 July 2013:
 * A year ago, we introduced you to the not-so-well-known Benedict Cumberbatch and what made him the hottest star. On his 37th birthday, here’s a look at why we are just a little crazier about the man who became famous playing Sherlock, how the Cumbercollective is expanding every day and how 2013 promises to be a Cumberfest!
 * 2013, Liz Ferguson, "TIFF 2013 will be the Benedict Cumberbatch Film Festival – or Cumberfest for short", The Gazette (Montreal), 24 July 2013:
 * PS: Mea culpa from me to the CumberCollective. Friday July 19 was the Cumber Birthday, and I surely meant to mark the occasion here on the Cine Files blog, because I’m a fan myself (can you tell?) but I was all caught up in the Fantasia Film Festival so I sort of forgot. Oooops! Sorry! Sorry!
 * 2013, Emma Daly, "Sherlock: Why we love Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, by the fans", Radio Times, 22 August 2013:
 * “Life depends on finding out about The Fall,” says Melissa, 14, who is a dedicated member of the Cumbercollective.
 * 2013, Barbara Vancheri, "Daniel Radcliffe raises Toronto International Film Festival star quality", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9 September 2013:
 * CumberCollective alert: Benedict Cumberbatch, who seems to be working (and excelling) nonstop these days, joked he apparently had 10 days off in the summer and they went by in a bit of a blur. But then he quotes that line about how "a change is as good as a rest."
 * 2013, "Benedict Cumberbatch: Cumbercollective's drawings of me are beautiful but it would be weird to put them all on the wall", Now (UK), 12 September 2013 (used in title only)
 * 2013, Emma McClatchley, "Becoming EnCumbered", The Daily Iowan (University of Iowa), 7 November 2013, page 2B:
 * I am not the first to join the “Cumbercollective” (an identifier suggested by Cumberbatch to replace the popularized phrase “Cumberbitches”), and I don’t expect to be the last.
 * 2014, Jacob Aguirre & Elizabeth O'Neil, "Sherlock Series Three Ends, Bets Being Taken on When Series Four Arrives", The MQ (satirical newspaper of John Muir College, University of California, San Diego), Volume 20, Issue 4, 5 February 2014, page 5:
 * “Honestly, we would be happy with a weekly promotional still of Sherlock Holmes sleeping in the nude,” social media specialist and CumberCollective member Lorena Martins professed.