YouTube

A 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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.tʃuːb/
  • (without yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.tjuːb/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈju.tub/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtjuːb, -uːtʃuːb
• Homophone: U-tube

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

   Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT

   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!

YouTube (countable and uncountable, plural YouTubes)

1. (countable) 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. (informal, countable) 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. (countable) A YouTube channel.
   • 2020 June 11, Dan Meyer, “National Theatre at Home to Broadcast A Midsummer Night's Dream, Starring Gwendoline Christie”, in Playbill:

     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.

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

1. (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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
2. (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 more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTube.
3. (intransitive) To upload or watch videos on YouTube.
   • 2023 March 24, Adam Leventhal, “Ben Foster’s move to Wrexham: How a business and football deal was done”, in The Athletic‎^[3]:

     He had discussed joining Atlanta United in MLS and following his retirement, there was an outside chance that Hugo Lloris’ current injury at Tottenham Hotspur would create an opening there. Other offers came and went, but it was YouTubing and podcasting that filled [Ben] Foster’s time, not football, albeit with the door to a comeback left slightly ajar.

Borrowed from English YouTube.

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

• Audio:

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• 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/, /ˈju.tjup/
• 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)

• YT (abbreviation)

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zu˧˧ tup̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧ tup̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jʊw˧˧ tʊp̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: du túp

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)