YouTube
proper nounnounverbattested in dialogue
- United States//ˈjutub//
- Australia//ˈjʉːtʃʉːb//
- //ˈjuːtʃuːb//
- //ˈjuːtjuːb//
A video-sharing website.
proper noun
- 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!
Etymology
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.
noun
- 1
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,[…]
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.
- 2
informalA 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,[…]
Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?
- 3
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 following Thursday.
verb
- 1
To upload a video of something to YouTube.
The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.
- 2
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.
If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.
- 3
To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
Forms
- plural
- YouTubes
- past tense
- YouTubed
- past participle
- YouTubed
- present participle
- YouTubing
- third person singular
- YouTubes