streamer

noun11

1. •
   (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.

   • Most streamers are on Twitch
2. •
   (Internet) A subscription service that streams content to an audience.

   • For starters, the business models for American broadcasters like NBC and streamers like Netflix (or Hulu, or Amazon) are drastically different. — 2016
3. •
   A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.

   • Brave Rupert from afar appears, / Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. — 1667
4. •
   Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.

   • […] from a cancan to a gothic tableau featuring mock-beheaded women at the windows of the Conciergerie with red streamers that looked like macabre spurting blood. — 2024
5. •
   A newspaper headline that runs along the top of a page.
6. •
   In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.

   • Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […] — 2019
7. •
   A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a tape drive.
8. •
   Any mechanism for streaming data.
9. •
   A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

   • While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. — 1888
10. •
    [in compounds] (UK) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).
11. •
    One who searches for stream tin.