-pocalypse

English

Etymology

From the latter part of apocalypse.

Suffix

-pocalypse

1. 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

See also

• -ageddon/-geddon/-mageddon