celebricide

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noun

The killing of a celebrity.

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Meanings

nouncelebricide (countable and uncountable, plural celebricides)

plural celebricides

  1. countableuncountableThe 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
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    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

Origin

From celebri(ty) + -cide.

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celebricide. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/celebricide

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“celebricide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/celebricide. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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