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-pocalypse
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English
Etymology
From the latter part of en apocalypse.
Suffix
noun-forming suffixes
Denoting a catastrophic event caused by or related to the stem word.
en 2012 Leslie Miller Uncle Dave's Cow: And Other Whole Animals My Freezer Has Known 30 Pollan's book spurred a whole genre of foodpocalypse writing, including novelist Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
en 2016 Adam Herbets California debates 'Gunpocalypse: 11 gun control bills in one day https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/gunpocalypse-california-legislators-listen-to-11-gun-control-bills-in-one-day Bakersfield Now
en 2019 Ciaran O'Kane In This Privacy-First Era, Ad Tech Needs to Evolve or Die https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2019/07/25/in-this-privacy-first-era-ad-tech-needs-to-evolve-or-die/ 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
en
See also
en -ageddon/en -geddon/en -mageddon