leave someone on read

verb
/ɹɛd/

Definitions

  1. To read someone's instant message(s) without giving a response, particularly on a…

    To read someone's instant message(s) without giving a response, particularly on a platform that lets one see whether a message has been viewed.

    • My boyfriend left me on read yesterday after I asked him to send me a picture of his dog, which made me very angry!
    • Left a nigga on read 'cause I felt like it
    • I said, do that, do that, baby all night long/ And I'ma turn off all my phones / You know I hate it when I'm left on read / But he make it all up in the bed

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for leave someone on read. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA