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meta-watching

verb /met-uh-woch-ing/

Definition

The deeply British pastime of consuming other people's reactions to television as a superior form of television.

In use

“We were meta-watching Gogglebox instead of the actual documentary it was reviewing.”

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Published 3 August 2026

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