# TikTok
## English
### Etymology

From tick-tock.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Proper noun

TikTok
* A video-sharing social media platform.

#### Derived terms

* TikToker
* TikTokification
* TikTokky
* -Tok

#### Translations
### Noun

TikTok (plural TikToks)
* (neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.
    How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?
* (informal) A TikTok account.
** 2022, Brian Barcelona, Don’t Scroll: Evangelism in the Digital Age‎, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Chosen Books, Baker Publishing Group, →ISBN:“Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.”
** 2022, Carol Pinchefsky, quoting Oriana Leckert, Turn Your Fandom into Cash: A Geeky Guide to Turn Your Passion into a Business (or at Least a Side Hustle)‎, Newburyport, Mass.: Career Press, Red Wheel/Weiser, llc, →ISBN:If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.
** 2022, Stefanie Caponi, Guided Tarot for Teens: A Beginner’s Guide to Card Meanings, Spreads, and Trust in Your Intuition‎, New York, N.Y.: Zeitgeist Young Adult, Penguin Random House LLC, →ISBN:Start a TikTok and share your ideas, join a club or group, or audition for the play, etc.
** 2023, Claudia B. Manley with Abi Slone, Fashion Writing: A Primer‎, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:If you look at the podcasting sphere, which was a way of voices that had been pushed to the margins to carve out a space, now it’s just a content farm and one more space people have to participate in, like how brands have to have a TikTok, a presence in all these different mediums.
** 2024, Hannah Trigwell, quoting Jack Conte, “Distributing Music Digitally”, in Making It Happen: How to Create a Sustainable Career in the Music Industry‎, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Focal Press, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:So, instead of just trusting that Spotify is always gonna do right by you, have a Spotify, have an Apple Music, Instagram, have a Facebook, have a TikTok, have a YouTube, have a merch site, have a Patreon.
** 2024, Philippa Lawford, Cold Water‎, Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN:We should start a TikTok for the drama department. […] We can do educational videos. Like, about the Poor Theatre, but with the dancing.
** 2024, Sinclair Jayne, The Cowboy Charm (The Coyote Cowboys of Montana)‎, Tule Publishing, →ISBN:We wanted some press so we started a TikTok and other social media.

### Verb

TikTok (third-person singular simple present TikToks, present participle TikToking or TikTokking or TikTok-ing, simple past and past participle TikToked or TikTokked)
* (neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to TikTok.
** 2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2:There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.
** 2020 March 11, Wesley Morris, “Lil Nas X Is the King of the Crossover”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.
** 2020 April 8, “Kauai mayor takes to TikTok”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Honolulu, Hi., page A8, column 1:It’s not often that one sees a mayor TikTok-ing and Instagramming such random activities, ranging from ice-cream making, to exercising, to a mini magic show.
** 2020 November 24, Libby Galvin, “Misinformation and fear is vaccine’s ticking time bomb”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:Despite some unfortunate mixed messaging so far, government officials say they are well aware that there is an information war they need to win in order to beat Covid — and like these TikTok-ing doctors, they believe that social media is the key.
** 2020 December 25, Melissa Ruggieri, “12 of the best songs of 2020”, in The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tex., section “Banners, “Someone to You”, page B3, column 5:But thanks to pandemic-shuttered TikTok-ing teens, the anthem with an urgent pulse and message of longing for closeness reignited the Liverpool export’s profile.
* (neologism, transitive) To search for and view on TikTok.

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:TikTok.

#### Derived terms

* TikToker

### See also

* Douyin

## German
### Alternative forms

* Tiktok

### Etymology

Borrowed from English TikTok.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɪktɔk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Tik‧Tok

### Proper noun

TikTok n (proper noun, strong, genitive TikToks or TikTok)
* TikTok (a video-sharing social media platform)

#### Usage notes

* Often used without an article.

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “TikTok” in Duden online
* “TikTok” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English TikTok.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tïk̟̚˧˦ tawk͡p̚˧˦], [tïk̟̚˧˦ təwk͡p̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [tɨt̚˦˧˥ tawk͡p̚˦˧˥], [tɨt̚˦˧˥ təwk͡p̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tɨt̚˦˥ tawk͡p̚˦˥], [tɨt̚˦˥ təwk͡p̚˦˥]
* Phonetic spelling: tích tóc, tích tốc

### Proper noun

TikTok
* TikTok (a video-sharing social media platform)
    Synonym: Tóp Tóp
** 2025 January 19, Điệp Anh, “TikTok chính thức ngừng hoạt động tại Mỹ [TikTok officially shuts down in the US]”, in VnExpress‎:Người dùng TikTok ở Mỹ nhận thông báo ứng dụng ngừng hoạt động vì lệnh cấm, nhưng hy vọng ông Trump có thể đảo ngược quyết định.TikTok users in the US are receiving a notification that the app has been shut down due to the ban, but are hoping that Trump can reverse the decision.

#### Derived terms

* TikToker