English Explanatory Dictionary

Ogg

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.
  2. A surname.
  3. An unincorporated community in Randall County, Texas, United States.
name
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ogg (“file format”).

Pronunciation

/ɒɡ/ en-us-ogg.ogg

Word forms

Ogg

Etymology

An abbreviation of OggSquish, a 1993 suggestion by Michael Whitsun to replace the original name (Squish) which was trademarked. Ogg was jargon from the computer game Netrek meaning roughly: to put all your resources into an attack to ensure its success, regardless of any negative consequences on the rest of the game. Allegedly ogg is a corruption of Og, the screen-name of the player who first played the game this way.

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