celebricide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 […]."
- "“This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual."
Etymology
From celebri(ty) + -cide.