-zillacombining form
Meaning & use
colloquial (originally U.S.).
- 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.See also bridezilla n., groomzilla n.
- 1976
A pet monster named ‘Goat-zilla’ that eats trash and never gets full.
Biddeford-Saco (Maine) Journal 24 December 12/4 - 1978
It breathes and hollars [sic] like All the Japanese sci fi monsters Rolled into one: Hogzilla.
, Secretary to Spirits 6 - 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.
, Everyday Health Tips iv. 147/1 (heading) - 1993
He dubs a charging turkey ‘Bird-zilla’.
USA Today 3 February 10d/7 - 2005
She's not the mom-zilla your writer depicted.
New York Magazine 4 July 12 - 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