@

At a rate of (so much each).

Noun

  1. The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.
    • What your @?

Forms

@s at

Related

at sign @ party @mention

Preposition

  1. At a rate of (so much each).
    • 15 items @ $10
    • @ 80 km/h
  2. At (any sense).
    • @ 20°C
    • Text message: “im @ school.”
    • "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me. - 2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:

Symbol Entry 3

  1. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
    • Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
  2. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
    • Kosov@; Pin@y

Origin

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Related

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Symbol Malaysia, Singapore

  1. Connecting a person's common name and alias, both of them are legal names.
    • Tan Cheng Bock @ Adrian Tan

Origin

Borrowed from Malay @, abbreviation of Malay atau (“or”).

Verb

  1. To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)
    • Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.
    • He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.
    • She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people. - 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:

Forms

@s @ing @ed