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First published 2009

-zillacombining form

colloquial (originally U.S.).
  1. With preceding noun, forming humorous, usually temporary words which depict a person or thing as a particularly fearsome, relentless, or overbearing example of its kind.
    1. 1976
      A pet monster named ‘Goat-zilla’ that eats trash and never gets full.
      Biddeford-Saco (Maine) Journal 24 December 12/4
    2. 1978
      It breathes and hollars [sic] like All the Japanese sci fi monsters Rolled into one: Hogzilla.
      I. Reed, Secretary to Spirits 6
    3. 1988
      Bosszilla... Your immediate supervisor at work is (a) crazy, (b) probably wanted by the FBI, (c) half man, half some type of life form from Pluto.
      D. Tkac, Everyday Health Tips iv. 147/1 (heading)
    4. 1993
      He dubs a charging turkey ‘Bird-zilla’.
      USA Today 3 February 10d/7
    5. 2005
      She's not the mom-zilla your writer depicted.
      New York Magazine 4 July 12
    6. 2007
      That was very Hollywood, however, and this is very British, especially those depressing streetscapes of north London, through which our ageing thespzilla stomps defiantly around in his old-geezer's woolly hat.
      Guardian 26 January (Film & Music section) 6/2

-zilla, comb. form was first published in December 2009.

-zilla, comb. form was last modified in July 2023.