donutgate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A 2015 controversy in which American singer, songwriter, and actress Ariana Grande was seen on surveillance video in a shop licking donuts that were on display and saying “I hate Americans. I hate America. This is disgusting.”
Slang
Example Sentences
- "A family friend says “Donutgate” won’t stop Grande’s rise to the pinnacle of music stardom."
- "The Focus singer and [Ricky] Alvarez started dating last year after they were spotted kissing in a surveillance footage for the now-infamous “Donutgate” where the two were seen licking donuts sold in a store."
- "CHAPTER EIGHT / #donutgate / If she thought 2014 had been stormy, then 2015 was going to offer a whole new level of drama – and if you want a snapshot of how crazy her life can be, then consider this fact: the almighty storm was whipped up by a humble doughnut. […] Well, if you thought that some of these scandals centred on bizarre themes, then the doughnut storm, inevitably nicknamed ‘doughnut-gate’ by the media, was about to reach a whole new level of weirdness."
- "The suffix [-gate] has also been used for hundreds of scandals in areas other than politics. For example, in 2015 in the world of entertainment there was Donutgate; journalism had its Mediagate in 2012; for sports there was Deflategate in 2015; and for technology and business Emissionsgate occurred in 2015."
- "For the most ridiculous gates, you’ve got to go to the entertainment media, which brought us Donutgate, based on some random incident of singer Ariana Grande licking unpurchased donuts and stating, “I hate America. That’s disgusting.”"
- "The 2016 DNC email hack revealed that “donutgate” cost her a gig at the [Barack] Obama White House."