text message

A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.

Noun

  1. A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
    • After the kitten had died, Robins sent a text message to Knutton saying: "Remember the saying: 'What goes around comes around?' It has started already to bite you in the arse. The cat? Karma." - 2011 December 14, Steven...
    • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via...
    • Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like. - 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:

    Synonyms: text

Forms

text messages

Derived

sex-text sext text messaging texting

Verb

  1. To transmit a text message.
    • I told him to text message you when he's finished.
    • Please text message the directions to me.

Forms

text messages text messaging text messaged

Synonyms

text message SMS