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media whore

media whore noun: a person who attempts to transfer or transfers from one entertainment industry to another based only on prior popularity and not necessarily legitimate talent.

Noun

media whore (plural media whores)

  1. (derogatory) A person who attempts to transfer or transfers from one entertainment industry to another based only on prior popularity and not necessarily legitimate talent.
  2. (derogatory) A person who craves media attention; someone who will apparently attempt anything to remain in the media spotlight.
    • Standing there in the car park with Prasanth’s camera trained on me and Dan, be-headphoned and with a microphone pointing at Chris, I was just having a minor media whore moment – of the kind you’d expect to see if you teleported a film crew of Channel 4 gits to the centre of somewhere that really...2008, Dan Kieran, Ian Vince, Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph, John Murray, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 145 and 244

Forms of media whore

pluralmedia whores

Questions about media whore

What does media whore mean?
Media whore means a person who attempts to transfer or transfers from one entertainment industry to another based only on prior popularity and not necessarily legitimate talent.
What part of speech is media whore?
Media whore is a noun.
What is the plural of media whore?
The plural of media whore is media whores.

Words near media whore in the dictionary

  1. media studies
  2. media stunt
  3. media stunts
  4. media wasp
  5. media wasps
  6. media whore
  7. media whores
  8. media-historical
  9. media-savvy
  10. mediacentric
  11. mediacid

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