double text
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.
noun
An instance of double texting.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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"
- "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…"