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double text (third-person singular simple present double texts, present participle double texting, simple past and past participle double texted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To send (someone) a text message after having already sent one part of a separate thought without allowing them to reply to the first text.
- 2018 July 5, Frank Kobola, quoting Alex, 29, “How Soon Is Too Soon to Send a Double Text? 8 Guys Weigh In”, in Cosmopolitan[1], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, Inc., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:
- You can double text out of genuine concern. Or if you have a new topic of conversation that’s very much time sensitive, I think that’s also fine.
- 2019 June 21, Sophia Benoit, “How to Avoid Dooming Your Date Before It Even Starts”, in GQ[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Inc., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:
- A good rule of thumb: You can double text someone once you’ve eaten them out. Before then, you don’t know them well enough.
- 2020 March 13, Alexis Jones, quoting Susan Winter, “Double Texting Etiquette: How Long Should You Wait To Text Back?”, in Women's Health[3], New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, Inc., →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:
- You don't want to double text if you're asking a question that's really a covert way of finding out how they feel about you
Usage notes[edit]
The term is not used to describe the common practice of sending multiple messages in sequence where the start of a each new message functions in the same way as pauses in spoken language.[1]
Noun[edit]
double text (plural double texts)
- An instance of double texting.
- 2021 September 23, Steph Eckardt, quoting Harry Styles, “Harry Styles Paused a Concert to Dole Out Dating Advice”, in W[4], New York, N.Y.: W Media, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-02-06:
- And now he’s ‘thumbsed’ it, so technically he was the last one to like, do something, but it still seems like a double text if I text him again…
Related terms[edit]
- double texting (noun)
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- ^ Gretchen McCulloch (2019) “Internet People”, in Because Internet, trade paperback, third printing edition, New York: Riverhead Books, published 2020, →ISBN, page 110:
- In speech, our baseline is the utterance—a burst of language bounded by pauses or interruptions. Sometimes an utterance corresponds to a full sentence; sometimes it doesn’t. […] For people whose linguistic norms are oriented to the internet, the most neutral way of indicating an utterance is with a new line or message break. Each text or chat message in a conversation automatically indicates a separate utterance.