The Word Cord Cutter Is Official

NOUN, informal
A person who cancels or forgoes a pay television subscription or landline phone connection in favour of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service.

Example Sentence:
‘the ranks of the cord cutters are growing, adding to the incipient rebellion around pay TV’

More Example Sentences:
‘Once a specialty niche favored by geeks and cord cutters, these gadgets are some of the hottest items around.’
‘The vast majority of these cord cutters are college students and twenty-somethings, experts say.’
‘Even cord cutters needed the modern equivalent of bunny ears if they wanted to get live news on their television.’
‘Pay-TV companies and networks need to make a change to stop the loss of cord cutters and entice the potential audience that’s never paid for TV.’
‘But are cord cutters willing to spend the cash for content?’
‘While the number of cord cutters might be lower this year, it’s hard to deny the number of new cable and satellite subscribers is slowing down.’
‘Until recently these cord cutters have had little effect on the subscription TV market.’
‘Perhaps intoxicated by the money they think they’re saving, cord cutters tend to be evangelical about their lifestyle.’
‘According to a recent survey, 33 percent of cord cutters would not return to cable, even if the cost was drastically reduced.’
‘Already, cord cutters are dropping cable or satellite to watch TV through iPads or game consoles.’