Dr. Strangelove

American  

[streynj-luhv] / ˈstreɪndʒˌlʌv /

noun

1. a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.

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Etymology

Origin of Dr. Strangelove

After a character in a movie of the same name (1963) by U.S. director Stanley Kubrick

Example Sentences

Using satire and humor in the vein of an equally powerful film of the early 1960s, “Dr. Strangelove,” it exposes the grotesque, absurd nature of the Stephen Millers and Gregory Bovinos more accurately than a documentary ever could.

From Salon

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon

“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said, according to the Washington Post.

From The Wall Street Journal

This fanged satire aspires to be a new “Dr. Strangelove,” and it comes pretty close.

From Los Angeles Times

It's a testament of our time that one of the best movies of 2025, HBO's "The Mountainhead," has a "Dr. Strangelove" level of absurdity in its plotting, and yet feels almost understated in its satire of the ridiculousness of our era.

From Salon