online-date

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Verb

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online-date (third-person singular simple present online-dates, present participle online-dating, simple past and past participle online-dated)

  1. Alternative form of online date.
    • 2013, Chiara Atik, Modern Dating: A Field Guide, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 102:
      IF YOU’RE a lesbian, you’re crazy not to online-date.
    • 2015 March 14, Caitlin Dewey, “Breaking down ‘digital divide’: Internet helps seniors cope better: Research”, in The Windsor Star, page D3:
      Kerstin Wolgers made it through 82 years on this Earth without ever once checking an email, watching a YouTube clip or sending a tweet. But last week, as part of a crash course that introduced her to the Internet for the first time, the former Swedish actress did all three — plus Googled, Instagrammed, Wikipedia-ed, shopped, video-gamed … even online-dated, eventually.
    • 2016, Liza Monroy, Seeing as Your Shoes Are Soon to Be on Fire, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN:
      But I didn’t want to online-date or meet men my mother would try to fix me up with.