Phrase guide
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noun
A bootleg video recording of a theatrical production, especially of a Broadway musical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slime, tutorial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Named for a popular genre of YouTube videos in the late 2010s that instructed viewers on how to make slime; by sharing a name with a popular search term, illicit videos of copyrighted productions were less likely to be flagged for copyright infringement or otherwise removed from video-sharing sites.
