YouTube

Website name, from a compound of you +‎ tube (“North American colloquial term for television”), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/, /ˈjuːtʃuːb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjutub/
• (GenAus, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: U-tube

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

   Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT

YouTube (plural YouTubes)

1. (neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.
   • 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:

     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, […]

   • 2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes:

     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. (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on YouTube.
   • 2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:

     Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet, […]

   • 2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:

     Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

3. (uncountable) 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!

YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

1. (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to YouTube.
   • 2007 February 5, “Why YouTube gets my vote for political punditry”, in Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

     The revolution will not be televised. It will be YouTubed.

2. (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.
   • 2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle‎^[2]:

     Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

   • 2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:

     If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ju.tyb/, /ju.tjub/, /ju.tub/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Switzerland):

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YouTube m

1. YouTube

• youtubeur

• Youtube

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːt(j)uːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

YouTube n (proper noun, strong, genitive YouTubes or YouTube)

1. YouTube

• IPA^(key): [ˈjutuːb], [ˈjucuːb]
• Hyphenation: You‧Tube
• Rhymes: -uːb

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Unadapted borrowing from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.tup/, /ˈjut.jup/
• Rhymes: -utup, -utjup
• Syllabification: You‧Tube

YouTube m inan

1. YouTube (video-sharing website)

• YouTube in Polish dictionaries at PWN

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• Rhymes: -ub, -uf

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)