TikTok

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TikTok

1. A video-sharing social media platform.

TikTok (plural TikToks)

1. (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.

   How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?

TikTok (third-person singular simple present TikToks, present participle TikToking or TikTokking or TikTok-ing, simple past and past participle TikToked or TikTokked)

1. (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to TikTok.
   • 2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2:

     There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.

   • 2020 March 11, Wesley Morris, “Lil Nas X Is the King of the Crossover”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     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.

   • 2020 April 8, “Kauai mayor takes to TikTok”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Honolulu, Hi., page A8, column 1:

     It’s not often that one sees a mayor TikTok-ing and Instagramming such random activities, ranging from ice-cream making, to exercising, to a mini magic show.

   • 2020 November 24, Libby Galvin, “Misinformation and fear is vaccine’s ticking time bomb”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:

     Despite some unfortunate mixed messaging so far, government officials say they are well aware that there is an information war they need to win in order to beat Covid — and like these TikTok-ing doctors, they believe that social media is the key.

   • 2020 December 25, Melissa Ruggieri, “12 of the best songs of 2020”, in The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tex., section “Banners, “Someone to You”, page B3, column 5:

     But thanks to pandemic-shuttered TikTok-ing teens, the anthem with an urgent pulse and message of longing for closeness reignited the Liverpool export’s profile.

2. (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on TikTok.

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