TikTok

TikTokname/ˈtɪkˌtɒk/

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  A video-sharing social media platform.

TikToknoun/ˈtɪkˌtɒk/

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  informalA small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.

  • How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?
  • Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music. Think about Nick Cave or Joni Mitchell, and just imagine them negotiating with this bullshit.
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  informalA TikTok account.

  • “Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.”
  • If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.

TikTokverb/ˈtɪkˌtɒk/

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  To upload a video of something to TikTok.

  • There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.
  • He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.
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  To search for and view on TikTok.