YouTube

American

[yoo-toob, -tyoob] / ˈjuˌtub, -ˌtjub /

Trademark.

a brand name for a website on which users can post, view, or share videos.

verb (used with or without object)

YouTubed, YouTubing

to post, view, or share (a video) on the YouTube website.

YouTube British

/ ˈjuːˌtjuːb /

noun

a website on which subscribers can post video files

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verb

(tr) to post (a video file) on the YouTube website

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Watch Trump’s interview with “Meet the Press” below via YouTube:

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2026

Subscribers can watch all the programming live on YouTube, including interviews with NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson, soccer star-turned-investor Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and NBA commissioner Adam Silver.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 11, 2026

But Lucas's concern comes with some misleading claims - for example, he told his YouTube audience that men would be infertile in 33 years, which is unsupported by scientific evidence.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2026

He described that as a "worst-case scenario" option in a YouTube interview with journalist Unsal Unlu.

From Barron's • Jul. 11, 2026

The day before her episode on me and Fig, I sat at my desk, the family laptop opened to her YouTube channel home page.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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