adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Reddit's users considered collectively; Reddit's userbase, Redditors. slang, uncountable
"Reddit praised him for doing a simple act of decency."
- 2 A subreddit. colloquial
"I tried visiting the atheism Reddit; biggest mistake of my life."
- 3 A person's profile on Reddit. Internet, uncommon
"I did some snooping and found her Reddit."
- 1 Alternative form of Reddit. alt-of, alternative
- 2 To mention (something) on the website Reddit. Internet, transitive
"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[…]"
- 1 Of, or resembling, Reddit's culture or userbase. Internet, derogatory, usually
- 1 An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website. Internet
"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.”"
Example
More examples"Sami found this story on Reddit."
Etymology
The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.