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hellsite

hellsite noun: a social media platform (particularly Tumblr, but generally any social media site such as Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, or Twitter) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.

Noun

hellsite (plural hellsites)

  1. (Internet, humorous) A social media platform (particularly Tumblr, but generally any social media site such as Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, or Twitter) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.
    • once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News
    • For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy […]2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15

Forms of hellsite

pluralhellsites

Origin of hellsite

From hell + site.

Questions about hellsite

What does hellsite mean?
Hellsite means a social media platform (particularly Tumblr, but generally any social media site such as Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, or Twitter) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.
What part of speech is hellsite?
Hellsite is a noun.
What is the plural of hellsite?
The plural of hellsite is hellsites.

Words near hellsite in the dictionary

  1. Hells Canyon
  2. hells yeah
  3. hellscape
  4. hellscapes
  5. Hellschen-Heringsand-Unterschaar
  6. hellsite
  7. hellsites
  8. hellsome
  9. hellspawn
  10. hellspawns
  11. hellstew

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hellsite (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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