Definitions
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- noun uncountable
Minor fame . - noun countable A minor
celebrity ; a person of restricted fame.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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Is the life of a demicelebrity like Schwartz worth reading about?
COME FLY WITH HIM 2007
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