double text

Definitions

1. 1

   To send (someone) a text message after having already sent one part of a separate thought…

   To send (someone) a text message after having already sent one part of a separate thought without allowing them to reply to the first text.

   • You can double text out of genuine concern. Or if you have a new topic of conversation that’s very much time sensitive, I think that’s also fine.
   • A good rule of thumb: You can double text someone once you’ve eaten them out. Before then, you don’t know them well enough.
   • You don't want to double text if you're asking a question that's really a covert way of finding out how they feel about you
2. 2

   An instance of double texting.

   • And now he’s ‘thumbsed’ it, so technically he was the last one to like, do something, but it still seems like a double text if I text him again…

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