YouTube
proper noun
- video sharing service
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːtʃuːb/ / /ˈjuːtjuːb/ / /ˈjutub/
name
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English YouTube A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
- A video-sharing website.
“Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.”
- Collectively, the users of YouTube; especially the content creator's viewers.
“Hi, how's it going YouTube! Sorry I wasn't able to upload a video last week!”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English YouTube A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
- Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
“None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]”
“There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.”
- A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
“Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]”
“Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?”
- A YouTube channel.
“National Theatre at Home also unveiled titles for the remainder of its season, which continues to release streams every Thursday at 2 PM ET on its YouTube, with productions remaining on demand through noon ET the following Thursday.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English YouTube A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
- To upload a video of something to YouTube.
“The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.”
- To search for and view on YouTube.
“Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.”
“If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.”
- To upload or watch videos on YouTube.