livestream

verb

1. (transitive)To broadcast as a live stream.

   “Post Malone raised more than $500,000 for coronavirus relief by livestreaming a Nirvana tribute concert on YouTube.”

   “The plot revolves around an aimless and unemployed young man, M, whose sole ambition is to livestream his online games.”

   “One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.”

2. (transitive)To receive and watch as a live stream.

   “I'm planning to livestream the football game this weekend.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of live stream.

   “He was arrested in March after an Instagram-savvy follower recognized the location of his livestream and called the cops, and Ross now faces 29 felony charges of vandalism.”

   “A few seconds before noon on a Monday, Jake Randall began encouraging people watching his livestream on YouTube to start refreshing Walmart’s website on their computers.”

   “In November, she expressed irritation with Sam, 29, in an awkward exchange on his livestream.”

   “CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.””