YouTube

• youtube

Website name, from 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/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjutub/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːtʃʉːb/

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, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     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?

YouTube

1. A video-sharing website.

• YouTuber
• YouTubular

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:

     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:

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

   • 2017 Sammy Guevara Impact Wrestling July 20

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

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:YouTube.

• Youtube

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːp/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːtjuːb/ (some southern speakers, chiefly Switzerland)

YouTube n (genitive YouTube or YouTubes, no plural)

1. YouTube

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

YouTube

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /juˈtub/, /juˈtubi/

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

Borrowed from English YouTube.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ɟ͡ʝuˈtub/, [ɟ͡ʝuˈt̪uβ]

YouTube m

1. YouTube (a video-sharing website)

• YouTuber
• youtubero