media whore
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who attempts to transfer or transfers from one entertainment industry to another based only on prior popularity and not necessarily legitimate talent.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Standing there in the car park with Prasanth’s camera trained on me and Dan, be-headphoned and with a microphone pointing at Chris, I was just having a minor media whore moment – of the kind you’d expect to see if you teleported a film crew of Channel 4 gits to the centre of somewhere that really couldn’t give a toss – when in cycled a man at great speed on a bicycle that appeared slightly too small for him. […] Ben interrupted the media whore luvvie-fest that had broken out in the Eden Project car park, and directed us to the electricity supply."