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MTV

proper nounattested in dialogue

A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A television channel that originally showed mostly music videos but now shows a wide variety of content.

    I want my, I want my MTV / Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it / You play the guitar on the MTV / That ain't workin', that's the way you do it / Money for nothin', and chicks for free

    We won the race, got out of the place / Went back home, got a brand new face for the boys on MTV

    So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV

    In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.

Etymology

Originally an initialism of Music Television, incorporating the earlier abbreviation TV for television.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).