private-message

See also: private message

English

Verb

private-message (third-person singular simple present private-messages, present participle private-messaging, simple past and past participle private-messaged)

  1. Alternative form of private message.
    • 2008 January 12, Antonia Zerbisias, “Virtual network: Sex and the single girl online []”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 5:
      “You can be silly or flirty or whatever you want,” she—assuming she is a she—private-messages me.
    • 2012 June 4, Charley Hannagan, “Bullying Poem Stirs Alums []”, in The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page A-10, column 6:
      “They private-messaged me again: ‘Will you come if we raise the money?’ ” she [Lynda Frederick] said.
    • 2023 December 9, Roxanne Lambert, quoting Sarah Dickerson, “More than skin deep []”, in The Hartsville Vidette, volume 161, number 48, Hartsville, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A1, column 4:
      Others have private-messaged me and Venmoed me money for school supplies.