sublebrity

sublebrity

English

Alternative forms

• sub-lebrity

Etymology

Blend of sub- +‎ celebrity

Noun

sublebrity (plural sublebrities)

1. (derogatory) A minor celebrity; someone famous for being famous.
   • 1998, SPIN, page 78

     After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.

   • 2012, Joan Collins, The World According to Joan, Hachette UK →ISBN

     I wonder how many of today's sublebrities will ever achieve that degree of longterm adulation?

   • 2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press →ISBN

     As I write this book, I have secured myself a place as a sublebrity in the pantheon of America's queer and postmodern subcultures.