Etymology

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Today it means: A pornographic video or film; a porno. Full definition →

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xvideo · noun1

Compound of X (“obscene, adult, pornographic”, adjective) + video. The website sense is derived from a notional singular form of XVideos, a pornographic video-sharing website, itself named after the first etymological root and coined in 2007 by the website creator Stephane Michael Pacaud.

xvideo · noun2

From X (“a social networking service”) + video. Coined in July 2023 when Twitter rebranded to X; by analogy with the above sense and the pornographic website XVideos to criticise or mock the name change.

xvideo · proper noun3

In lowercase.

XVideo · noun4

A back-formation from XVideos, a pornographic video-sharing website founded in 2007 by Stephane Michael Pacaud.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.