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Empty-Vee en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɛmpˌtiːˈviː/
• /ˌɛmˌtiːˈviː/

Etymology

A pun on MTV (originally "Music Television"; American cable television channel) and empty; from a belief that the channel's programming is vacuous.

Meanings

1. (US, dated, derogatory, humorous, slang) A nickname for MTV (American cable television channel).
   • Like “We Are the World,” it too would end up as a video on Empty-Vee (MTV). 1985 August, James Wolcott, “Mixed Media”, in Tina Brown, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 48, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
   • Not the kind of rock that you hear on the radio or see on eMpTyV 1999, Tom Minarchick, quotee, “Record Reviews”, in Jersey Beat, number 65 (zine), Weehawken, NJ: Jim Testa, →OCLC, unnumbered page, column 2:
   • “[…]Am I on that stupid Empty Vee show, the one where the brain dead former male model plays tricks on his rich and vapid celebrity friends?” 2006, anonymous author, “Rue the Day III (Carpe Diem)”, in Painfully Awkward, Volume Publishing, →ISBN, page 166:
   • These clips often break the clichés and formulas of typical videos on “Empty-Vee” as some call [MTV], by using the form of music video in unexpected, provocative ways 1996, Jack Banks, Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control The Music, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 206:
   • Meanwhile, the youth of America sit glazed in front of empty-vee watching Monkees reruns. 1994, David B. Feinberg, Queer and Loathing, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 18:

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