sext

plural sexts

1. historicalNoon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

   Synonyms: midday, noontide, 12 o'clock, 12 noon, 12 p.m., high noon, meridian, meridiem

2. CatholicismThe service appointed for this hour.
3. entertainmentA sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
4. obsoleteentertainmentAn organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

plural sexts

1. An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.

   Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message

   2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, page 37

present singular third person sexts · participle present sexting · participle past sexted · past sexted

1. intransitivetransitiveTo send a sext.

   Sexting sonnets / Under the tables

   2022, “Billions”, performed by Caroline Polachek

   5 more examples

   Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham

   2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption)

   […] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.

   2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, “Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8”, in New Zealand Herald, page 35

   The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.

   2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, “Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme”, in Albany Student Press

   We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.

   2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, page 3

   She describes her content as “Valentine’s Day style” and says that for people who have grown up sexting friends, posting bikini shots of themselves on Instagram and becoming influencers, OnlyFans can feel like a “natural progression”.

   2025 September 11, Amelia Gentleman, “Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms: sex-text