Compound ofX(“obscene,adult,pornographic”,adjective) +video. The website sense is derived from a notional singular form ofXVideos, a pornographic video-sharingwebsite, itself named after the first etymological root and coined in 2007 by the website creator Stephane Michael Pacaud.
xvideo (pluralxvideos)
- (pornography,Internetslang, generallyuncommon) A pornographicvideo orfilm; aporno.
- Synonyms:adult film,adult movie,blue film,blue movie,fuck film,skin flick,xvid
- (pornography,Internetslang,rare)Alternative form ofXVideo(“a pornographic video uploaded toXVideos”).
- (pornographic video) Used chiefly in advertisingspam or website descriptions as akeyword forsearch engine optimization. In colloquial speech, "XVideos" (the name of the website) is much more common.
FromX(“asocial networking service”) +video. Coined in July 2023 whenTwitter rebranded to X; by analogy with the above sense and the pornographic websiteXVideos tocriticise ormock the name change.
xvideo (pluralxvideos)
- (Internetslang,humorous) Avideo on thesocial networking serviceX (formerlyTwitter); an X video.
- Coordinate term:xeet
Inlowercase.
xvideo
- (computing,dated, nowrare)Alternative form ofXVideo(“theX video extension”).
