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Etymology

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Columbine +‎ -er.

Noun

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Columbiner (plural Columbiners)

  1. (slang) One who idolizes the perpetrators of the Columbine High School massacre, with this fascination often expressed on social media in a fandom-like way.
    • 2020, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, Scribner, →ISBN, page 197:
      Maybe that's what was truly frightening about the Columbiners—not their veneration of Harris and Klebold, but what they articulated about themselves through their very public devotion.

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