-pocalypse
English
Etymology
From the latter part of apocalypse.
Suffix
-pocalypse
- Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
- 2012, Leslie Miller, Uncle Dave's Cow: And Other Whole Animals My Freezer Has Known, page 30:
- Pollan's book spurred a whole genre of foodpocalypse writing, including novelist Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
- 2016, Adam Herbets, “California debates 'Gunpocalypse': 11 gun control bills in one day”, in Bakersfield Now:
- 2019, Ciaran O'Kane, “In This Privacy-First Era, Ad Tech Needs to Evolve or Die”, in ExchangeWire:
- But there are two things Criteo have that will probably help them survive the coming ‘cookiepocalypse’: Hooklogic and their thousands of marketer-direct relationships.
Derived terms
English terms suffixed with -pocalypse
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