YouTube

alternative misspelling Youtube

1. A video-sharing website.

   Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.

2. 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!

plural YouTubes · alternative misspelling Youtube

1. countableAny 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,[…]

   2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design

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   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.

   2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes

2. countableinformalA small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.

   Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

   2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver

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   Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]

   2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded

3. countableA 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.

   2020 June 11, Dan Meyer, “National Theatre at Home to Broadcast A Midsummer Night's Dream, Starring Gwendoline Christie”, in Playbill

present singular third person YouTubes · participle present YouTubing · participle past YouTubed · past YouTubed · alternative misspelling Youtube

1. transitiveTo upload a video of something to YouTube.

   The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.

   2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited

2. transitiveTo search for and view on YouTube.

   If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.

   2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling

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   Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

   2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2015

3. intransitiveTo upload or watch videos on YouTube.

1. misspellingMisspelling of YouTube.