Sublebrity
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of minor celebrity (“a celebrity of little importance or significance; someone famous for being famous”). derogatory, informal
"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 [Courtney] Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father, Hank Harrison, who appears in the movie hawking his self-published anti-Courtney screed, Who Killed Kurt Cobain?"
Example
More examples"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 [Courtney] Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father, Hank Harrison, who appears in the movie hawking his self-published anti-Courtney screed, Who Killed Kurt Cobain?"
Etymology
Blend of sub- (“below; secondary, subsidiary”, prefix) + celebrity.
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