venmo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.42 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To use the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system, originally principally for splitting bills such as for food, drinks, entertainment, and transportation.
Informal; Intransitive verb
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Venmo.
Example Sentences
- "It was part of a larger trend of monetizing the demand for unpaid emotional labor that became bigger and bigger after the 2016 election. At first, posting a Venmo or CashApp “for emotional labor” was something I noticed activists doing, usually Black women who were being asked to donate their time and expertise for free to the public, and even to private institutions with the budget to pay them."
- "His vest had a Kevin Bacon hashtag and a Venmo on it. “I have to give it to Doug, he is a hustler,” Briana said, eyeing the Venmo. “Doug would punch me in the face for a billion dollars.”"
- "Where many bars published their staff’s Venmos and Cash Apps so that patrons could show some financial appreciation while they were out of work, Troupe429 went further. […] Each “Troupetender” card featured a cute headshot, a QR code linked to the employee’s online cash account, and a recipe for a cocktail."
- "A Venmo pops up. Jesse Desmond. I thought that was his voice."
- "Find PayPals, Venmos, or CashApps of BIPOC and randomly donate money as reparations."
- "Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?"
Etymology
After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons: We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.