veejay slang (chiefly U.S.).
(viːˈdʒeɪ)
Also vee-jay, VJ.
[Pronunc. of the initial letters of video jockey, after D.J. s.v. D III. 3; cf. dee-jay, deejay.]
One who presents a programme of (popular music) videos, esp. on television.
| 1982 N.Y. Times 4 July iii. 17/1 The image..flashes..to a loft studio where a video jockey—or ‘veejay’, a cross between a disc jockey and a TV emcee—announces what has just been played on MTV. 1983 Amer. Way June 170/1 VJs, or video jockeys, at MTV's studio cue up as many as 13 videos an hour. 1984 Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 29 Jan. 16 (caption) Mike Read and colleagues—today's disc jockeys will be tomorrow's ‘veejays’. |