- promzilla
- n.A high school girl who, while planning for her prom, becomes exceptionally selfish, difficult, and obnoxious. Also: prom-zilla. [prom + Godzilla.]Example Citations:Inspired by films like High School Musical and the television show Glee, British teens are no longer content with the traditional end-of-term school disco and a plastic cup of lemonade to mark the end of their senior school years....Such is the phenomenon's iron grip on the British teen's imagination that a new word has entered the lexicon: the Promzilla, a particular kind of prom-obsessed adolescent.—Kathryn Knight, " Stretch limos, spray tans and the £500 dresses: The unstoppable (and ludicrously expensive) rise of the high school prom: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1372539/Stretch-limos-spray-tans-500-dresses--unstoppable-ludicrously-expensive-rise-high-school-prom.html," Daily Mail, April 1, 2011Esposito remembered the late Father Melton and the priest's claim to fame to get anyone into a college, in exchange for the opportunity to go to Prendie's prom with a "promzilla."—Linda Reilly, " Augustinian priests will be missed greatly at Bonner: http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2009/05/10/news/doc4a063e148a237501072940.txt," Delaware County Daily Times, May 10, 2009Earliest Citation:Count yourself lucky, Michelle!! If you didn't know what a Bridezilla was, this means you've never met one. LOL There is also Promzilla (impossible to please prom dress client).—Sharon, " what to charge?: https://groups.google.com/group/alt.sewing/browse_thread/thread/505fc2f68e544ab8/5d6c6b692e380551?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22promzilla%22&pli=1," alt.sewing, October 28, 2004Notes: Related Words: Categories:Many zillas, including filezilla (ftp program) and fraudzilla http://gold-silver.us/vbtest/showthread.php?86559-FraudZilla
New words. 2013.
