celebricide
English
Etymology
From celebri(ty) + -cide.
Noun
celebricide (plural celebricides)
- The killing of a celebrity.
- 1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, p. 188:
- 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 […].
- 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
- “This started with O.J.,” he declares. […] Not only were we sanctioning celebricide, but we were watching it as a daily ritual.
- 1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, p. 188: