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vidcap

vidcap noun: a still image consisting of a frame captured from film or television.

Noun

vidcap (plural vidcaps)

  1. (informal) A still image consisting of a frame captured from film or television.
    • The contamination shows in the blurry but garish photos of crowds of people moving through the garish urban interiors, looking more like vidcaps from MTV...2002, Ewout Dorman, Crimson 1994-2002 Architectural Historians
    • Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide

Forms of vidcap

pluralvidcaps

Origin of vidcap

Syllabic abbreviation of video capture.

Questions about vidcap

What does vidcap mean?
Vidcap means a still image consisting of a frame captured from film or television.
What part of speech is vidcap?
Vidcap is a noun.
What is the plural of vidcap?
The plural of vidcap is vidcaps.

Words near vidcap in the dictionary

  1. vidblogs
  2. vidcall
  3. vidcalls
  4. vidcam
  5. vidcams
  6. vidcap
  7. vidcaps
  8. vidcast
  9. vidcasted
  10. vidcasting
  11. vidcasts

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