Citations:neknominate

English citations of neknominate, Neknominate, and NekNominate

Noun: online drinking game

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• 2014, Sarah Knapton, "NekNominate: alcohol deaths rise fuelled by online drinking games", The Telegraph, 19 February 2014:

  Rugby player Bradley Eames, 20, died four days after filming himself drinking two pints of gin in a NekNominate challenge.

• 2014, Carol Kuruvilla, "Viral ‘neknominate’ drinking game linked to five deaths", New York Daily News, 20 February 2014:

  In one neknominate video, a woman in a Baywatch bikini downs a beer at a fast food restaurant.

• 2014, Santiago Sia, Society in its Challenges: Philosophical Considerations of Living in Society, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2014), →ISBN, page 147 (footnote), published 17 March 2014:

  Recently, the social media phenomenon of “Neknominate” has been blamed, due to peer pressure, of promoting irresponsible drinking among the young and even of causing deaths.

• 2014, "Mother who lost son in NekNominate craze refuses to blame his friends", The Guardian, 29 October 2014:

  The mother of a man who died after taking part in the NekNominate online drinking craze wept as she told his inquest that he would still be alive if it were not for the game.

• 2015, John Mauk & John Metz, The Composition of Everyday Life, Nelson Education (2015), →ISBN, page 493, 1 January 2015:

  While binge drinking may find new tools and fashionable avenues on social media (such as the recent NekNominate game), it seems to be firmly rooted in college culture.

• 2015, Charlie Keegan, "Neknominate victim never drank in front of parents", Irish Independent, 24 February 2015:

  A 19-year-old man consumed a cocktail of three brands of spirits as part of a neknominate social media challenge, before stripping down to his shorts and jumping into the River Barrow, an inquest has heard.

• 2015, Shane Blackman, Laura Doherty, & Robert McPherson, "Normalisation of hedonism?: Challenging convergence culture through ethnographic studies of alcohol consumption by young adults – a feminist exploration", in Women and Alcohol: Social Perspectives (ed. Patsy Staddon), Policy Press (2015), →ISBN, pages 48-49, published 3 June 2015:

  The Daily Mail Online (2014a) posted a video of Rebecca Dagley: 'Women, 19, walks into supermarket and strips to her underwear to down can of lager in latest NekNominate dare.'