Hate-watch

Quick meaning: Hate-watch is a verb meaning (informal) Such a program.

Meaning

(informal) Such a program.

More Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To watch a television program, etc., that one dislikes, for the pleasure one derives from criticizing or making fun of it.
2. (sports) 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.

Example Sentences

Granny Tentacles: Ah, this show's pretty good... for me to hate-watch!

I pretended I hate-watched Sex and the City, when in truth I love it earnestly to the point of being deranged.

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."

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.

Word Forms

• hate-watches
• hate-watching
• hate-watched
• hatewatch

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hate-read, dislike, gay-shame, bigotise, red-bait, queerbait.

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