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English
Etymology
A pun on MTV (originally "Music Television"; American cable television channel) and empty; from a belief that the channel's programming is vacuous or lacks substance.
Pronunciation
- enPR: /ˌɛmpˌtiːˈviː/, /ˌɛmˌtiːˈviː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
Empty-Vee
(dated, slang, chiefly US, humorous, derogatory)
- A nickname for MTV (American cable television channel).
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:Like “We Are the World,” it too would end up as a video on Empty-Vee (MTV).
1994, David B. Feinberg, Queer and Loathing, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 18:Meanwhile, the youth of America sit glazed in front of empty-vee watching Monkees reruns.
1996, Jack Banks, Monopoly Television: MTV's Quest To Control The Music, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 206: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
1999, Tom Minarchick, quotee, “Record Reviews”, in Jersey Beat, number 65 (zine), Weehawken, NJ: Jim Testa, →OCLC, unnumbered page, column 2:Not the kind of rock that you hear on the radio or see on eMpTyV
2006, anonymous author, “Rue the Day III (Carpe Diem)”, in Painfully Awkward, Volume Publishing, →ISBN, page 166:“ […] 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?”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Empty-Vee.