Celebricide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Celebricide is a noun meaning The killing of a celebrity.
Meaning
The killing of a celebrity.
Example Sentences
“This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual.
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 […].
Word Forms
- celebricides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include regicide, tyrannicide, murdercide, multicide, felicide, pedicide.
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