Britneyesque

English

Etymology

From Britney +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Britneyesque (comparative more Britneyesque, superlative most Britneyesque)

  1. Reminiscent of Britney Spears, a famous American singer.
    • 2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, page 14:
      A Britneyesque microphone curled around her cheek. She lifted her perfectly plucked eyebrows in my direction as if to say, "Come closer. Let me help you."
    • 2007, Rosie White, Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture, Routledge, page 8:
      Sending up the conventions of the teen drama and the spy film, these young spies are, as the strapline says, ‘crime-fighting hotties with killer bodies.’ Seductively presented for the viewer as Britneyesque teens in tartan mini skirts, D.E.B.S. nonetheless demonstrates the cultural elasticity of the female spy in twenty-first-century media.
    • 2008, Ivan Maisel, The Maisel Report, Triumph Books, page 133:
      Deconstructing Saban is a lot of work because he has a Britneyesque ability to attract attention, both good and bad.
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