sublebrity

English

Alternative forms
  • sub-lebrity

Etymology

Blend of sub- +‎ celebrity

Noun

sublebrity (plural sublebrities)

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