Meanings
suffix
- Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
Pollan's book spurred a whole genre of foodpocalypse writing, including novelist Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
2012, Leslie Miller, Uncle Dave's Cow: And Other Whole Animals My Freezer Has Known, page 301 more example
But there are two things Criteo have that will probably help them survive the coming ‘cookiepocalypse’: Hooklogic and their thousands of marketer-direct relationships.
2019, Ciaran O'Kane, “In This Privacy-First Era, Ad Tech Needs to Evolve or Die”, in ExchangeWire
Origin
From the latter part of apocalypse.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
-pocalypse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-pocalypse
MLA
“-pocalypse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-pocalypse. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-pocalypse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-pocalypse.
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