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celebricide

celebricide noun: the killing of a celebrity.

Noun

celebricide (countable and uncountable, plural celebricides)

  1. The killing of a celebrity.
    • Mark David Chapman's celebricide of John Lennon and John Hinckley, Jr.'s attempted assassination of President Reagan were neither politically motivated acts of terror nor psychologically motivated […].1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, page 188
    • “This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual.2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties

Forms of celebricide

pluralcelebricides

Origin of celebricide

From celebri(ty) + -cide.

Questions about celebricide

What does celebricide mean?
Celebricide means the killing of a celebrity.
What part of speech is celebricide?
Celebricide is a noun.
What is the plural of celebricide?
The plural of celebricide is celebricides.

Words near celebricide in the dictionary

  1. celebrealities
  2. celebreality
  3. celebret
  4. celebretard
  5. celebretards
  6. celebricide
  7. celebricides
  8. celebrification
  9. Celebrini
  10. celebrious
  11. celebriphilia

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