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celebricide en · NOUN

Etymology

From celebri(ty) + -cide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The killing of a celebrity.
   • “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:
   • 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:

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