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hate-watch en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈheɪt.wɒtʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈheɪt.wɑtʃ/ (General-American)
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
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(informal) Such a program.
Shame seemed to be a common reaction to “Emily in Paris,” which became the hate-watch par excellence of Pandemic Year One, and whose second season arrives Wednesday on Netflix with le nouveau variant Omicron.
2021 December 22, Jason Farago, “‘Emily in Paris’ and the City I Thought Was Mine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Forms
hate-watch en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈheɪt.wɒtʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈheɪt.wɑtʃ/ (General-American)
- (Australia) audio
Meanings
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(informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
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To watch a sports game of a particular team in hopes of seeing them lose; because of a rivalry or that the loss of that particular team would help another team's standings.
Among my favorite things about the season is the resounding crunch of stepping on a leaf, wearing pants all the time and the end of hate-watching yet another season of "The Newsroom."
2013 September 25, Jonathan Black, “Spice up your life … this fall”, in The Pendulum, volume 39, number 14, Elon, N.C.: Communications Media Board, Elon College, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2016, page 29:I pretended I hate-watched Sex and the City, when in truth I love it earnestly to the point of being deranged.
2014 October 19, Anne Breslaw, “What happens when the chill girl falls in love”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2016:Granny Tentacles: Ah, this show's pretty good... for me to hate-watch!
2023 July 6, Jacob Fleisher, Charlie Jackson, Stephen Herczeg, “Get Off My Lawnie” (10:37 from the start), in Charlotte Jackson, director, The Patrick Star Show, season 1, episode 25b, spoken by Granny Tentacles (Cree Summer):Whether Girls is on your must-see list or that show you love to hate-watch, in some way, no matter how small, it has spoken to your experience as a young woman trying to make it in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.
2014 February, Laura K. Garrison, “The good, the bad, and the Girls”, in Barnard Bulletin, New York, N.Y.: Barnard College, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2016, page 19:
Forms
Deriveds
hate-watching · hate-watchable · hate-watcher
Relateds
pocket watch
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