celebricide

English

Etymology

From celebri(ty) +‎ -cide.

Noun

celebricide (countable and uncountable, plural celebricides)

  1. The killing of a celebrity.
    • 1991, Joël Black, The Aesthetics of Murder, page 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.
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