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private-message en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of private message.
“They private-messaged me again: ‘Will you come if we raise the money?’ ” she [Lynda Frederick] said.
2012 June 4, Charley Hannagan, “Bullying Poem Stirs Alums […]”, in The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page A-10, column 6:“You can be silly or flirty or whatever you want,” she—assuming she is a she—private-messages me.
2008 January 12, Antonia Zerbisias, “Virtual network: Sex and the single girl online […]”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 5:Others have private-messaged me and Venmoed me money for school supplies.
2023 December 9, Roxanne Lambert, quoting Sarah Dickerson, “More than skin deep […]”, in The Hartsville Vidette, volume 161, number 48, Hartsville, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A1, column 4:
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