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Ogg.

An open bitstream container file format for audio, video, and other multimedia content.

3 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/ɒɡ/UK
  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.

Where this word comes from

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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.