plural streamers
1
b
: any long narrow wavy strip resembling or suggesting a banner floating in the wind
c
2
: one that streams digital data (see stream entry 2 sense transitive 3)
The rub, of course, is that music streaming isn't a terribly profitable business, due mostly to the royalties streamers must pay to labels and artists.—
Dan Gallagher
Dan GallagherThe app's audience peaked at 2.4 million concurrent streamers…—Yoree Koh
Yoree Koh3
a
: a long extension of the solar corona visible only during a total solar eclipse
b
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Examples of streamer in a Sentence
streamers in the team's colors hung from the top of the stadium
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Call it the awkwardness of the pregame: Peacock’s Kornacki cam didn’t work for about ten minutes, and every hour or so, the Multiview feature would crash, reflecting the instability of the streamer’s new infrastructure.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit was one of the streamer’s biggest hits of 2020, as millions around the world lapped up the drama and turned to the age-old pastime to keep themselves going as lockdown rumbled on.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
One of the talking points of the AFM will certainly revolve around production budgets which skyrocketed during the peak years of streamers and rose even more after the pandemic.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
Netflix was in part responding to the French government having ruled that the streamer, like all TV networks in France, must invest in French content as a condition to operate in the country.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit was one of the streamer’s biggest hits of 2020, as millions around the world lapped up the drama and turned to the age-old pastime to keep themselves going as lockdown rumbled on.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
One of the talking points of the AFM will certainly revolve around production budgets which skyrocketed during the peak years of streamers and rose even more after the pandemic.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
Netflix was in part responding to the French government having ruled that the streamer, like all TV networks in France, must invest in French content as a condition to operate in the country.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Streamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/streamer. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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streamer
noun
stream·er
ˈstrē-mər 
1
a
: a flag that streams in the wind
especially
: pennant sense 1
b
: a long narrow wavy strip suggesting a banner floating in the wind
2
plural
: aurora borealis
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