Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hunzone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hun-zone
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme.

Slang; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"However, if the desire to join their business isn’t there, it can easily sever a new friendship there and then, leaving the hunzoned person feeling used."
"The study’s findings add to our understanding of women’s use of social media as well as existing MLM communication literature to qualify hunzoning as a computer-mediated-communication expectancy violation."

Etymology

From hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone, by analogy with friendzone.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hunzones (present, singular) hunzoning (participle, present) hunzoned (participle, past) hunzoned (past)

Questions

What does hunzone mean?: To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme.
Where does hunzone come from?: From hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone, by analogy with friendzone.

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