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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed proper noun: a news and entertainment website launched in 2006, owned by BuzzFeed, Inc.

Proper noun

BuzzFeed

  1. A news and entertainment website launched in 2006, owned by BuzzFeed, Inc.

Noun

BuzzFeed (plural BuzzFeeds)

  1. (informal) A BuzzFeed article.
    • Thanks to Facebook I saw tweets, memes, BuzzFeeds, and UpWorthy videos that gave me much-needed comic relief and valuable material you will read more about in the pages to come.2014, Sophia A. McClennen, “[Preface and Acknowledgments] Sophia’s Acknowledgments”, in Sophia A. McClennen, Remy M. Maisel, Is Satire Saving Our Nation? Mockery and American Politics, New York...
    • I scroll through my feed, clicking on Amazon links for my next read and also on some Buzzfeeds,^([sic]) because they make me laugh.2014, Cassie Mae, chapter 17, in The Real Thing, London: Rouge, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN

Examples of BuzzFeed in a sentence

  • Get the BuzzFeeds you actually want to read / The viral content website has launched its own news app for personalised updates2015, “Tutorials”, in Android Magazine, number 58, Bournemouth, Dorset: Imagine Publishing Ltd, →ISSN, page 36:
  • Indeed, “proposal fails” is an entire genre of YouTube videos as well as the subject of various BuzzFeeds, Tumblr sites, and even Twitter feeds.2019, Laurie Essig, “Marry Me?”, in Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter, Oakland, Calif....
  • I’VE READ THE BUZZFEEDS, I KNOW ALL ABOUT THESE GEN WHAT-HAVE-YOUs-⁠- / THEY’RE SOFT, SELF-OBSESSED, GLUED TO THEIR PHONES ALL DAY.2020, Nick Spencer, The Amazing Spider-Man, volume 8 (Threats & Menaces; numbers 37–43), New York, N.Y.: Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN:

Forms of BuzzFeed

pluralBuzzFeeds

Words formed from BuzzFeed

Questions about BuzzFeed

What does BuzzFeed mean?
BuzzFeed means a news and entertainment website launched in 2006, owned by BuzzFeed, Inc.
How do you use BuzzFeed in a sentence?
Get the BuzzFeeds you actually want to read / The viral content website has launched its own news app for personalised updates
What part of speech is BuzzFeed?
BuzzFeed can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near BuzzFeed in the dictionary

  1. buzzes in
  2. buzzes off
  3. buzzes up
  4. buzzest
  5. buzzeth
  6. BuzzFeed
  7. BuzzFeeder
  8. BuzzFeeders
  9. BuzzFeedish
  10. BuzzFeeds
  11. BuzzFeedy

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