celebricideとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From celebri(ty) +‎ -cide.

名詞

celebricide (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 celebricides)

1. The killing of a celebrity.
   • 1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, p. 188:

     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 […] .

   • 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:

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