Definitions

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  • noun uncountable Minor fame.
  • noun countable A minor celebrity; a person of restricted fame.

Etymologies

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demi- +‎ celebrity

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Examples

  • This time around the Labour Party's "Red Ken" may have met his match in Boris Johnson, a demicelebrity of the Tory right known for his erudition — carefully concealed by his inability to string sentences together — and a mop of blond hair that, in full flight, resembles an exploding dandelion.

    A Race to Remember 2008

  • Rex lurking behind those squalling guitars, but what really got my attention was Internet demicelebrity Jakob Lodwick doing a silly robot dance with a girl in aqua tights and a guy with a ginormous afro.

    Notes from SXSW: Jay Reatard on Memphis, Matador, and Drugs: Michael Hogan Hogan, Michael 2008

  • Is the life of a demicelebrity like Schwartz worth reading about?

    COME FLY WITH HIM 2007

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