feevee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]feevee (uncountable)
- (US, colloquial, dated) Pay TV.
- 1978, Harrison Boyd Summers, John H. Pennybacker, Broadcasting and the Public, page 177:
- Most providers of "feevee" have promised to make available programs of types not usually available […]
- 1980, Jay S. Harris, TV guide, the first 25 years, page 232:
- To be sure, pay-cable's under 200,000 subscribers nationwide is still a very small number. And even the most optimistic of cable enthusiasts agree that "feevee" isn't going to rob broadcast television of any sizable number of viewers […]