Meanings
reddit1
- alternativeAlternative form of Reddit
present singular third person reddits · participle present redditing · participle past reddited · past reddited
- alternativeAlternative form of Reddit.
comparative more reddit · superlative most reddit
- alternativeAlternative form of Reddit.
Reddit2
alternative reddit
- InternetAn American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
“I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously.
2025 January 15, Kashmir Hill, “She Is in Love With ChatGPT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
Online forums dedicated to incel culture are a reliable way to see how the term evolved and is used today. A subreddit, or forum on Reddit, called r/incels was one of the most visible meeting places for self-identified incels until it was banned by Reddit in 2017 for “violent content.”
2023 March 16, AJ Willingham, “What does the term ‘incel’ mean?”, in CNN
present singular third person Reddits · participle present Redditing · participle past Reddited · past Reddited · alternative reddit
- InternettransitiveTo mention (something) on the website Reddit.
It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]
2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 69972 more examples
... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.
2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 404Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.
2010 June 21, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins, Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 184
comparative more Reddit · superlative most Reddit · alternative reddit · alternative reddit
Origin
The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).
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Cite this entry
reddit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reddit
“reddit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reddit. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reddit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reddit.
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