Meaning of celebricide | Babel Free

Definitions

The killing of a celebrity.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 […].”

““This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual.”

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