Meanings
noundouble texting (uncountable)
- uncountableThe practice of double texting.
Double texting is on a list of relationship icks in a poll commissioned by the dating site Seeking.
2023 January 10, “Double texting: why needy messages – and smelling bad – could relegate you to the dating ‘ick’ list”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 20231 more example
The younger millennials are more privy to double texting. Not in the know? Double texting is when you send two texts without a reply in between, which apparently, is not the way to play the game.
2018 March 20, Brittany Bennett, “7 Ways Older Millennials Text Differently Than Younger Millennials”, in Bustle, New York, N.Y.: Bustle Digital Group, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of double text
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double texting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20texting
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“double texting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20texting. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “double texting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20texting.
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