Oprah

1. A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah.
2. colloquialbroadcastingThe Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).

   He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

present singular third person Oprahs · participle present Oprahing · participle past Oprahed · past Oprahed · participle past Oprah'd · past Oprah'd

1. informaluncommonTo feature on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

   Suddenly it seemed as if [Cormac] McCarthy was the most famous writer in America: profiled, reappraised, gossiped about, Oprah'd, but, most importantly, read.

   2008 January 12, Jason Cowley, “A shot rang out …”, in The Guardian

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   [Jonathan Franzen] had expressed to various people his anxiety about being “Oprah-ed” (my word, not his). He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.

   2015, Philip Weinstein, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN

   To be Oprahed means that one shares details about themselves that he or she would normally not share publicly. Indeed, more than one writer has quipped that Winfrey's cultural authority transformed her name into an adjective, verb, adverb, and noun.

   2019, Jamie J. Wilson, editor, 50 Events That Shaped African American History, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 704