eBay

See also: ebay

English

Etymology

Short for Echo Bay Technology Group, the consulting firm involved with its development. By surface analysis, e- (digital) +‎ bay.

Proper noun

eBay

  1. A popular Internet auction website.
    • 2003, "Weird Al" Yankovic, eBay (song)
      A used pink bathrobe
      A rare mint snow globe
      A Smurf TV tray
      I bought on eBay.
    • 2015 October 29, Mike Abu, “A Trip to Zaqistan, One Man’s ‘Sovereign Nation’ in the Middle of the Utah Desert”, in VICE‎[1]:
      When Zaq originally won his two-acre Utah plot off eBay in July 2005, he did so with the minimum bid of $610 dollars.

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Verb

eBay (third-person singular simple present eBays, present participle eBaying, simple past and past participle eBayed)

  1. To put on auction at eBay.

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