Oprah

proper noun

1. 1

   A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah.

2. 2

   The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011).

   He was on Oprah recently to talk about his new book.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo feature on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

   Suddenly it seemed as if [Cormac] McCarthy was the most famous writer in America: profiled, reappraised, gossiped about, Oprah'd, but, most importantly, read.

   [Jonathan Franzen] had expressed to various people his anxiety about being “Oprah-ed” (my word, not his). He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.

   To be Oprahed means that one shares details about themselves that he or she would normally not share publicly. Indeed, more than one writer has quipped that Winfrey's cultural authority transformed her name into an adjective, verb, adverb, and noun.

Forms

past tense

Oprahed, Oprah'd

past participle

Oprahed, Oprah'd

present participle

Oprahing

third person singular

Oprahs