Etymology

Dr. Strangelove

Today it means: Someone who is likely to launch a nuclear attack or otherwise destroy the world. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

From the character Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.