YouTube
A video-sharing website.
Proper noun
- A video-sharing website.
- Anthony just subscribed to someone on YouTube a day ago.
Related: YT
- 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!
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you Latin tuba Latin tubusder. Middle French tubeder. English tube English YouTube A website name (from you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”)) implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.
Derived
BookTube booktuber GunTube GunTuber Jewtube MCYT University of YouTube virtual YouTuber VTuber YouPube YouTube bait YouTube Poop YouTube Pooper YouTuber YouTube University YouTubian YouTubular YTP
Noun
- Any 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...
- 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,...
- A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
- 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:
- 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:
- A 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...
Forms
Verb
- To 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:
- To search for and view on YouTube.
- 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:
- 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:
- To upload or watch videos on YouTube.