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hate watch

hate watch is the alternative form of hate-watch.

Meaning of hate-watch

Verb

hate-watch (third-person singular simple present hate-watches, present participle hate-watching, simple past and past participle hate-watched)

  1. (informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
  2. To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose; because of a rivalry or that the loss of that particular team would help another team's standings.
    • Among my favorite things about the season is the resounding crunch of stepping on a leaf, wearing pants all the time and the end of hate-watching yet another season of "The Newsroom."2013 September 25, Jonathan Black, “Spice up your life … this fall”, in The Pendulum, volume 39, number 14, Elon, N.C.: Communications Media Board, Elon College, →OCLC, archived from the original on...

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Forms of hate watch

third-person singular presenthate watches
present participlehate watching
past participlehate watched
pasthate watched

Questions about hate watch

What is hate watch the alternative form of?
Hate watch is the alternative form of hate-watch.

Words near hate watch in the dictionary

  1. hate speech
  2. hate strike
  3. hate strikes
  4. hate the game, not the player
  5. hate the sin but love the sinner
  6. hate watch
  7. hate-blog
  8. hate-blogs
  9. hate-boner
  10. hate-boners
  11. hate-crime

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