empty-vee

1. USdatedderogatoryhumorousslangAlternative letter-case form of Empty-Vee.

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1. USdatedderogatoryhumorousslangA nickname for MTV (American cable television channel).First known use 1980s

   Not the kind of rock that you hear on the radio or see on eMpTyV

   1999, Tom Minarchick, quotee, “Record Reviews”, in Jersey Beat, number 65 (zine), Weehawken, NJ: Jim Testa, →OCLC, unnumbered page, column 2

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   Like “We Are the World,” it too would end up as a video on Empty-Vee (MTV).

   1985 August, James Wolcott, “Mixed Media”, in Tina Brown, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 48, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15

   Meanwhile, the youth of America sit glazed in front of empty-vee watching Monkees reruns.

   1994, David B. Feinberg, Queer and Loathing, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 18

   These clips often break the clichés and formulas of typical videos on “Empty-Vee” as some call [MTV], by using the form of music video in unexpected, provocative ways

   1996, Jack Banks, Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control The Music, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 206

   “[…]Am I on that stupid Empty Vee show, the one where the brain dead former male model plays tricks on his rich and vapid celebrity friends?”

   2006, anonymous author, “Rue the Day III (Carpe Diem)”, in Painfully Awkward, Volume Publishing, →ISBN, page 166