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-pocalypse

-pocalypse suffix: denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.

Suffix

-pocalypse

  1. Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
    • Pollan's book spurred a whole genre of foodpocalypse writing, including novelist Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.2012, Leslie Miller, Uncle Dave's Cow: And Other Whole Animals My Freezer Has Known, page 30
    • But there are two things Criteo have that will probably help them survive the coming ‘cookiepocalypse’: Hooklogic and their thousands of marketer-direct relationships.2019, Ciaran O'Kane, “In This Privacy-First Era, Ad Tech Needs to Evolve or Die”, in ExchangeWire

Origin of -pocalypse

From the latter part of apocalypse.

Questions about -pocalypse

What does -pocalypse mean?
-pocalypse means denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
What part of speech is -pocalypse?
-pocalypse is a suffix.

Words near -pocalypse in the dictionary

  1. -ploid
  2. -ploidy
  3. -plon
  4. -pnea
  5. -pnoea
  6. -pocalypse
  7. -pod
  8. -podal
  9. -pode
  10. -podium
  11. -podous

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