Netflix

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verb

To watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix.

“He used to Netflix for 5 hours a day.”

Less commonFirst used the 2000sScrabble 17
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Meanings

verbNetflix (third-person singular simple present Netflixes, present participle Netflixing, simple past and past participle Netflixed)

present singular third person Netflixes · participle present Netflixing · participle past Netflixed · past Netflixed

  1. InternetinformaltransitiveTo watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix.First known use the 2000s

    He used to Netflix for 5 hours a day.

    3 more examples

    We started with Buffy, which had us completely sucked in by the time Xander's buddies ate Principle Flutie. Then, after Netflixing Buffy all the way to the end, we started on Angel.

    2007, Lani Diane Rich, “Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal”, in Jane Espenson, editor, Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe, BenBella Books, →ISBN, 108

    I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced, airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet takeoffs as mere technological bravura).

    2009 November 25, Jack Bohn, “Re: "UFO" movie to star Joshua Jackson”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet)

    I was surprised to see Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, as I've only recently discovered him when I Netflixed Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders show.

    2014 July 13, really real [username], “...And Justice for All (1979)”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet)

Origin

From the company name Netflix, founded in 1997, probably from Net (“the Internet”) + flix, an alteration of flicks (“films, movies”).

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Translations

French netflixer
  • netflixerto watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix
Hungarian netflixezik
  • netflixezikto watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix
Thai เน็ตฟลิกซ์
  • เน็ตฟลิกซ์ (nèt-flíks, nét-flìk)to watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix
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APA

Netflix. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Netflix

MLA

“Netflix.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Netflix. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Netflix,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Netflix.

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