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hatewatch

hatewatch 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 hatewatch

third-person singular presenthatewatches
present participlehatewatching
past participlehatewatched
pasthatewatched

Questions about hatewatch

What is hatewatch the alternative form of?
Hatewatch is the alternative form of hate-watch.

Words near hatewatch in the dictionary

  1. hatesite
  2. hatesites
  3. hatesome
  4. hatest
  5. hateth
  6. hatewatch
  7. hatewatched
  8. hatewatcher
  9. hatewatches
  10. hatewatching
  11. hateworthy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatewatch (page history and authors); hate-watch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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