sublebrity

English

Alternative forms

• sub-lebrity

Etymology

Blend of sub- +‎ celebrity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʌbˈlɛbɹɪti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sublebrity (plural sublebrities)

1. (derogatory) A minor celebrity; someone famous for being famous.

   Synonym: C-lister

   Coordinate term: microcelebrity

   • 1998, SPIN, page 78:

     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 Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.

   • 2012, Joan Collins, The World According to Joan, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     I wonder how many of today's sublebrities will ever achieve that degree of longterm adulation?

   • 2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press, →ISBN:

     As I write this book, I have secured myself a place as a sublebrity in the pantheon of America's queer and postmodern subcultures.

   • 2018 January 15, Marina Hyde, “Britain’s ghastliest financial sublebrities – a who’s who”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     But I could definitely consider a Shower List – a list of the biggest shower of horrors in any field at any given moment. First up, then: Britain’s Ghastliest Financial Sublebrities.