the next Suckerberg
- noun
- Offensive
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próximo Suckerberg (insulto, informal)
- She dreams of launching a startup and becoming the next Suckerberg in the industry.
Examples
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After selling his app, people began calling him the next Suckerberg in tech magazines.
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Journalists are always searching for the next Suckerberg to interview about the future of social media.
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Everyone is looking for the next Suckerberg in Silicon Valley.
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Could she be the next Suckerberg?
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After selling his app, people began calling him the next Suckerberg in tech magazines.
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Journalists are always searching for the next Suckerberg to interview about the future of social media.
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She dreams of launching a startup and becoming the next Suckerberg in the industry.
Synonyms
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7.4
A person who rises quickly to wealth or power and seems rude
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8.2
A person who wants to be like a famous or successful person
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5.1
A person who is very successful and likely to go far at work or school
Antonyms
How Successful
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3.4
- Offensive
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4.1
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3.9
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6.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
the + next + Suckerberg
The key constituent 'Suckerberg' is a nonce, punny alteration of the proper name 'Zuckerberg' and is not a lexical item whose meaning a learner can derive from component parts. Understanding the phrase requires cultural knowledge of Mark Zuckerberg and recognition of the wordplay, so a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents would not predict the intended sociocultural meaning. This makes the expression idiomatic and not compositionally transparent.
Etymology
The next Suckerberg comes from a joking mix of the word sucker and the name Zuckerberg. The image is of someone trying to copy Mark Zuckerberg to become a big tech star, so it means 'a person trying to become very successful in social media or tech by copying well-known people'.