buycentennial

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of buy +‎ bicentennial.

Proper noun[edit]

buycentennial

  1. The United States Bicentennial, seen as a consumeristic event.
    • 1976 August 28, Tommi Avicolli, “Dyketactics Hexes Church at Eucharistic Meet”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 3:
      The City, in clear violation of the principle of the separation of church and state, hung banners all along the new (buycentennial-made) Chestnut Street Transitway and the Parkway, proclaiming: "Jesus, the bread of life."