Dictionary

PlayStation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən/
• (UK) audio

Etymology

From play + station; coined by Sony Computer Entertainment.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:trademark) A video game console of the PlayStation brand.
   • Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation^([sic]) of its day. 2003, Cash Peters, Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist, page 55:
   • He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death. 2009, Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet Morocco, page 38:
   • The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004. 2009, Michael Schaffer, One Nation Under Dog, page 150:
   • His dad bought him a Playstation 5 yesterday.
2. (qualifier:trademark) The original PlayStation.

Forms

Deriveds

PlayStationer · PS4 · PSN · PSX · PSP · PS5 · PS1 · CensorStation · PS2 · GayStation · PSVR · PS · PS3

Synonyms

PS

Translations (24)

afb بليستيشن (series of video game consoles) · es playstation (series of video game consoles) · ja プレイステーション (series of video game consoles) · ko 플레이스테이션 (series of video game consoles) · pl PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · afb سوني (series of video game consoles) · fi pleikkari (series of video game consoles) · fr PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · mr प्लेस्टेशन (series of video game consoles) · ur پلے اسٹیشن (series of video game consoles) · pt PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · ota پلیاستیشن (series of video game consoles) · nl PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · de PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · cs PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · ro PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · hi प्लेस्टेशन (series of video game consoles) · ru ПлейСте́йшен (series of video game consoles) · it PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · fi pleikka (series of video game consoles) · ru плэйстэ́йшн (series of video game consoles) · fi PlayStation (series of video game consoles) · fa پلی استیشن (series of video game consoles) · tr PlayStation (series of video game consoles)

PlayStation en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən/
• (UK) audio

Etymology

From play + station; coined by Sony Computer Entertainment.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, rare) To play on the PlayStation video game console.
   • While she falls asleep studying, the rest of gang is partying and PlayStationing; […] 2008 February 14, Wesley Morris, “Dancing aside, ‘Step Up 2’ just plods”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 45, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, page D9, column 3:
   • Mark Bond, designer “25 years ago I was bouncing around on my Space-hopper, watching Thunderbirds and playing Kerplunk. 25 years later, I have just bought a Sacco bean-bag from Coexistence to sit on whilst Playstationing.^([sic])[…]” 1999, Coexistence: Twenty-Five Years, [London?]: Blueprint, →ISBN, page 119:
   • “I moved in to ‘guard’ the place from vagabonds and dossers,” says [Orin] Walters, laughing. “And I turned it into a living, eating, Playstationing,^([sic]) music-making, smoking den for me and my mates. And that’s what we did, 24-7.” 2005 June/July, Vivian Host, “broken RULES”, in XLR8R, number 88, San Francisco, Calif.: Amalgam Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50, column 1:
   • A boat was moored up at one: the fairy-lit waterline cabins looked impossibly cosy, the pigtailed daughter PlayStationing on the bridge painfully evocative. 2001, Tim Moore, Continental Drifter: Taking the Low Road with the First Grand Tourist, London: Abacus, →ISBN, page 296:
   • Do you fit much PlayStationing into your hectic schedule? 2001 May, Chris Stead, “Mat Hoffman”, in Official NZ PlayStation Magazine, number 44, Auckland: ACP Publishing, →OCLC, page 82:
   • [Lenore] Skenazy wrote on her May 22 dotcom FreeRangeKids, it would be “a day to get kids outside to meet each other and relearn the lost art of playing! As opposed to PlayStationing.” 2010 May 19, Joanna Molloy, “Ring Around the Rosie days in city are long gone”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 3, column 1:
   • And faceless Jason, Playstationing^([sic]) for 30 hours or more, ratcheted down from Druggie High, to twitch upon the floor. 2009, Michael Yates, edited by John Clarke, Life Class, [Wakefield]: Nettle Books, →ISBN, page 57:
   • He’ll play outside in the fresh air when he should be inside playstationing and getting asthma. 2005, Nicemongoose, quotee, edited by Tim Worstall, 2005: Blogged; Dispatches from the Blogosphere, London: Friday Books, →ISBN, page 52:
   • They laughed, thinking of their friend who had swapped his evening run for pizza eating and PlayStationing and had ballooned. 2016, Amanda Prowse, Another Love, London: Head of Zeus, →ISBN, page 100:
   • Connectix does not claim to emulate all Sony games and even the ones it does accommodate won’t necessarily run smoothly or accurately, but with a fair-sized library of perfectly compatible games, CVGS does “broaden consumer choice,” as it purports to intend, and allows for PlayStationing at work, during a long commute via one’s laptop, or at home when the TV isn’t available. 2000 May 15, Cox News Service, “PlayStation games can run on PC”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 123, number 232, Dayton, Oh.: Cox Ohio Publishing, →ISSN, page 2E:
   • Dad comes in—Skyler is playstationing. Dad says: “What about your homework?” Skyler says: “Later. All work and no Playstation^([sic]) makes Jack a dull boy.” 2015, J. T. Dock Houk, Life’s a Joke, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 348:

Forms

Translations (1)

nl playstationen (play on the PlayStation video game console)