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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
celeb
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blakes's dramatically designed interior and glamorous suites have long attracted visiting celebs.
▪ Celebrities made places like Studio glamorous to those who wanted to be celebs.
▪ Crowds of celebs are having to have a laugh and raise loads of cash for children.
▪ He used to sneak into glittery society events and take pictures of himself with all the leading celebs.
▪ One cashier reported that his best celeb sale of the day was two suits to Al Pacino.
▪ Since winning the competition Russell is quite a celeb in his home town.
▪ They blew their cash on Monopoly-money advances for a few celebs.
▪ Yet, Fine recently has found himself just saying no to celebs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
celeb

colloquial shortening of celebrity "celebrated person," by 1908, American English.

Wiktionary
celeb

n. (context informal English) A celebrity; a famous person.

Usage examples of "celeb".

A major celeb will be coming down into the bottoms with an entire entourage.

The audience would not only be full of celebs but also stacked to the rafters with casting agents, national theatre directors, top fringe theatre directors, journalists and critics.

And then there were all the celebs who were filling up the front rows.

Make a grand entrance like one of those celebs on a talk-show staircase?

What he talked about mostly was films, telly, celebs and how much money they made.

Given the identities of the few local celebs I recognized, I figured the club must charge enough in dues that the decorations were probably realthetic.

George Hamilton, Christopher Reeve, Brooke Shields, jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Heather Locklear, Quincy Jones, and a host of other Hollywoodites flew in ready to join local celeb Billy Kidd and ski for a good cause.

Doesn't seem a celeb like him'd risk a murder conviction because of a blackmail threat.

So when entering Jane Elias's name on her meta search engine threw up a website called Laughing With the Dead Celebs, she couldn't resist.