Definition of "Katrina"

Katrina

/kəˈtɹiːnə/

proper noun
1. A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
2. The 11th hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
  Quotations
  “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”
  2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250
3. (US, metonymically) A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
  Quotations
  Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?
  2020 March 8, Chris Cillizza, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 9 March 2020