xvideo

noun — 4 senses

XVideo

nounalso spelled XVideo

Etymology A back-formation from XVideos, a pornographic video-sharing website founded in 2007 by Stephane Michael Pacaud.

1

Slang A pornographic video uploaded to XVideos.

xvideo

noun

/ɛksˈvɪdioʊ/

Etymology Compound of X (“obscene, adult, pornographic”, adjective) + video. The website sense is derived from a notional singular form of XVideos, a pornographic video-sharing website, itself named after the first etymological root and coined in 2007 by the website creator Stephane Michael Pacaud.

1

Lifestyle, Media, Pornography, Sexuality Internet A pornographic video or film; a porno.

Generally uncommon

2

Lifestyle, Media, Pornography, Sexuality Internet, Alternative, Rare Alternative form of XVideo (“a pornographic video uploaded to XVideos”).

Related terms
porn tube, tube site, sexploitation, pornographic
Hypernyms
adult content, pornography, XXX, Further: Thesaurus:pornography
Hyponyms
HMV, JAV, PMV, stag film

xvideo

noun

Etymology From X (“a social networking service”) + video. Coined in July 2023 when Twitter rebranded to X; by analogy with the above sense and the pornographic website XVideos to criticise or mock the name change.

1

Internet, Humorous A video on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter); an X video.

Related terms
Xitter

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for XVideo and xvideo.