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123movies

123movies noun: an unauthorised (illegal) website that allows users to stream, watch or download films for free.

Noun (1)

123movies

  1. (Internet) An unauthorised (illegal) website that allows users to stream, watch or download films for free.
    1. (Internet, broadly) Any website or service that allows users to illegally stream, view, read or download content for free, such as films, shows, videos, literature, images and live broadcasts.
      • There needs to be a 123movies for sports cuz this shits ridiculous2023 January 1, @joni_calderon, Twitter

Proper noun capitalized: 123Movies

123Movies

  1. A generic name for a number of unauthorised film streaming websites; a service that that allow users to stream pirated films, shows and sometimes other videos for free.

Noun (2) capitalized: 123Movies

123Movies

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of 123movies (“an unauthorised (illegal) website that allows users to stream, watch or download films for free”).
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of 123movies (“any website or service that allows users to illegally stream, view, read or download content for free, such as films, shows, videos, literature, images and live broadcasts”).

Forms of 123movies

alternative form123Movies

Origin of 123movies

Genericized trademark of 123Movies.

Genericized trademark; from 123Movies, an unauthorised (illegal) network of file streaming websites operating from Vietnam which allowed users to watch films for free; launched around 2016 and formally shut down in 2018. The noun sense is derived from the prominence of 123Movies.

Questions about 123movies

What does 123movies mean?
123movies means an unauthorised (illegal) website that allows users to stream, watch or download films for free.
What part of speech is 123movies?
123movies can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near 123movies in the dictionary

  1. 120-cell
  2. 120-cells
  3. 120s
  4. 121
  5. 121 George Street
  6. 123movies
  7. 125
  8. 125s
  9. 1260
  10. 1260s
  11. 128th note

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