sleb
/slɛb
/noun informal
A celebrity: a reality show in which slebs cook for other slebs in a faux restaurant [as modifier]: sleb culture...
- Six months later, she took up with a "sleb."
- She just comes across as a sleb, while Anna has something real.
- Now, 35 years later, Andy Warhol's Interview magazine is credited with inventing 'sleb' culture, says Colin McDowell
Origin
1990s: representing a colloquial pronunciation of celeb.
- give someone the flick (or get the flick)
- give someone the glad eye
- give someone the hairy eyeball
- give someone their cards
- give someone their due
- give someone their head
- give someone the needle
- give someone the pip
- give someone the shits
- give someone the shudders
- give someone the slip
- give someone the time of day
- give someone the works
- give someone/thing a bad name
- give someone/thing a (good) run for their money
- give someone/thing a wide berth
- give someone/thing best
- give someone/thing the nod
- give someone to understand (or believe or know)
- give someone up
- give someone up for lost
- give someone what for
- give something a miss
- give something away
- give something a whirl