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Ogg

UK/ɒɡ/

Ogg proper noun: an open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.

Proper noun (1)

Ogg

  1. (file format) An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
  2. A surname.
  3. An unincorporated community in Randall County, Texas, United States.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: OGG

OGG

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ogg (“file format”).

Forms of Ogg

alternative formOGG

Origin of Ogg

An abbreviation of OggSquish, a 1993 suggestion by Michael Whitsun to replace the original name (Squish) which was trademarked. Ogg was jargon from the computer game Netrek meaning roughly: to put all your resources into an attack to ensure its success, regardless of any negative consequences on the rest of the game. Allegedly ogg is a corruption of Og, the screen-name of the player who first played the game this way.

Words that rhyme with Ogg

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Questions about Ogg

What does Ogg mean?
Ogg means an open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
What part of speech is Ogg?
Ogg is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Ogg?
Ogg is pronounced /ɒɡ/ (UK).

Words near Ogg in the dictionary

  1. Ogeechee limes
  2. ogeed
  3. ogees
  4. Ogema
  5. Ogemaw County
  6. Ogg
  7. ogganition
  8. Oggerino
  9. oggie oggie oggie
  10. oggies
  11. oggin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ogg (page history and authors); OGG (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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