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tivo

tivo verb: to digitally record (a television show).

Verb (1)

tivo (third-person singular simple present tivos, present participle tivoing, simple past and past participle tivoed)

  1. To digitally record (a television show).
    • I think I'll be out to dinner when Michael Phelps goes for the gold. Oh well – I'll just tivo it.
  2. To have a show on one's lineup of shows to record.
    • My mum loves to watch Neighbours. She has the series tivoed.

Noun capitalized: TiVo

TiVo (plural TiVos)

  1. A digital video recorder (of any brand).
    • Lost, season 4, begins in early February, after one of the most thrilling season enders in a decade of television: […] Set your TiVo.2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134

Verb (2) capitalized: TiVo

TiVo (third-person singular simple present TiVos, present participle TiVoing, simple past and past participle TiVoed)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of tivo.
    • Most of us keep our lips buttoned and our conversations shorter than a prizefighter's temper. It's not because we didn't hear what you said, and it's not because we're too tired, and it's not because we're too busy TiVoing the 2009 fall TV lineup.2007, David Zinczenko, Men, Love & Sex: The Complete User's Guide for Women, Rodale, →ISBN, page 56

Forms of tivo

Verb
third-person singular presenttivos
present participletivoing
past participletivoed
pasttivoed
third-person singular presentTiVos
present participleTiVoing
past participleTiVoed
pastTiVoed
Noun
pluralTiVos

Origin of tivo

From the TiVo service.

From TiVo, a specific digital video recorder introduced in 1999.

Words formed from tivo

Questions about tivo

What does tivo mean?
Tivo means to digitally record (a television show).
What part of speech is tivo?
Tivo can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of tivo?
The past tense of tivo is tivoed.

Words near tivo in the dictionary

  1. Tivetshall St Mary
  2. Tividale
  3. tividenofusp alfa
  4. Tivington
  5. tivirapine
  6. tivo
  7. tivoed
  8. Tivoid
  9. TiVoing
  10. tivoisation
  11. tivoization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tivo (page history and authors); TiVo (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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