Citations:Netflix

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English citations of Netflix

Verb: "(transitive) to watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix"[edit]

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  • 2007, Lani Diane Rich, “Curse Your Sudden but Inevitable Betrayal”, Jane Espenson (ed.), Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon's Firefly Universe, BenBella Books, →ISBN, 108:
    We started with Buffy, which had us completely sucked in by the time Xander's buddies ate Principle Flutie. Then, after Netflixing Buffy all the way to the end, we started on Angel.
  • 2009 November 25, Jack Bohn, “Re: "UFO" movie to star Joshua Jackson”, in rec.arts.tv[1] (Usenet):
    I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced, airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet takeoffs as mere technological bravura).
  • 2010, Maya Sloan, High Before Homeroom, Gallery Books, →ISBN, chapter 1, 17:
    Every time I look at it, I think about how she ended up marrying my dickhead father, and it seems like something straight out of one of those chick movies she Netflixes and forces me to watch, usually starring Emma Thompson, where all the women are desperate to get married and in the end they fall in love with some asshole tool instead of the nice, available guy who isn't as good-looking but would give them security and unconditional love and wouldn't spend their dowry on prostitutes.
  • 2014, My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life, Scribner, →ISBN, chapter 1, 10:
    In all those fairy tales, and also in a lot of Hollywood movies you wind up Netflixing, the story ends at the happily ever after.
  • 2014 July 13, really real [username], “...And Justice for All (1979)”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films[2] (Usenet):
    I was surprised to see Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, as I've only recently discovered him when I Netflixed Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders show.