text message
A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
Noun
- 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
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Verb
- To transmit a text message.
- I told him to text message you when he's finished.
- Please text message the directions to me.