Pronunciations
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/ˈɹɛdɪt/
Proper noun
An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
Usage- Internet
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Online forums dedicated to incel culture are a reliable way to see how the term evolved and is used today. A subreddit, or forum on Reddit, called r/incels was one of the most visible meeting places for self-identified incels until it was banned by Reddit in 2017 for “violent content.”
“I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously.
Verb
To mention (something) on the website Reddit.
Usage- Internet
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It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]
... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.
Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.
Adjective
Of, or resembling, Reddit's culture or user base.
Usage- Internet
- Derogatory
- usually
Noun
Reddit's users considered collectively; Reddit's user base, Redditors.
Usage- Slang
- Uncountable
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Reddit praised him for doing a simple act of decency.
Hello, Reddit! Mind helping me with this Sudoku problem?
A subreddit.
Usage- Colloquial
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I tried visiting the atheism Reddit; biggest mistake of my life.
A person's profile on Reddit.
Usage- Internet
- Uncommon
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I did some snooping and found her Reddit.