millennial pause
/mɪˈlɛniəl ˌpɔːz/
millennial pause noun: a brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
Noun (1)
millennial pause (plural millennial pauses)
- A brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
- Apparently, I'm still guilty of the "Millennial pause." After hitting "Record," I wait a split second before I start speaking, just to make sure that TikTok is actually recording.2022 August 6, Kate Lindsay, “Are You Sure You're Not Guilty of the 'Millennial Pause'?”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- Ekin-Su doesn't flatten herself to widen her appeal to audiences. It's even more obvious, now that she's out of the villa, that she had minimal IG career aspirations going in — she and Davide both are endearingly bad at social media (check Ekin's IG Story and you're likely to find millennial...2022 August 16, Katja Vujić, “An Ode to Ekin-Su, TV's Best Reality Star”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 10 May 2023
Noun (2) capitalized: Millennial pause
Millennial pause (plural Millennial pauses)
- Alternative letter-case form of millennial pause.
- Apparently, I'm still guilty of the "Millennial pause." After hitting "Record," I wait a split second before I start speaking, just to make sure that TikTok is actually recording.2022 August 6, Kate Lindsay, “Are You Sure You're Not Guilty of the 'Millennial Pause'?”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- As Millennials overtake Boomers as the most embarrassing generation — the most recent focus of slagging by the younger Gen Z is the “Millennial pause”, which is that excruciating two seconds that pass in a smartphone video while a thirtysomething is checking to make sure they’re recording...2022 September 10, Emer McLysaght, “So much admin, too many taxes – adulthood is a crushing disappointment Emer McLysaght”, in The Irish Times, Dublin, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022, page...
Forms of millennial pause
| plural | millennial pauses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Millennial pause |
| plural | Millennial pauses |
Questions about millennial pause
- What does millennial pause mean?
- Millennial pause means a brief pause by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).
- What part of speech is millennial pause?
- Millennial pause is a noun.
- How do you pronounce millennial pause?
- Millennial pause is pronounced /mɪˈlɛniəl ˌpɔːz/.
- What is the plural of millennial pause?
- The plural of millennial pause is millennial pauses.
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