Meaning of TikTok | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A video-sharing social media platform.
2. A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.
   informal, neologism
3. A TikTok account.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?”

“Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music. Think about Nick Cave or Joni Mitchell, and just imagine them negotiating with this bullshit.”

““Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.””

“If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.”

“Start a TikTok and share your ideas, join a club or group, or audition for the play, etc.”

“If you look at the podcasting sphere, which was a way of voices that had been pushed to the margins to carve out a space, now it’s just a content farm and one more space people have to participate in, like how brands have to have a TikTok, a presence in all these different mediums.”

“So, instead of just trusting that Spotify is always gonna do right by you, have a Spotify, have an Apple Music, Instagram, have a Facebook, have a TikTok, have a YouTube, have a merch site, have a Patreon.”

“We should start a TikTok for the drama department. […] We can do educational videos. Like, about the Poor Theatre, but with the dancing.”

“We wanted some press so we started a TikTok and other social media.”

CEFR level