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hunzone

hunzone verb: to contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme.

Verb

hunzone (third-person singular simple present hunzones, present participle hunzoning, simple past and past participle hunzoned)

  1. (slang, transitive) To contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme.
    • However, if the desire to join their business isn’t there, it can easily sever a new friendship there and then, leaving the hunzoned person feeling used.2019 July 10, Jessica Lindsay, “Hunzoning is the trend that sees you going from friend to MLM recruit”, in Metro
    • The study’s findings add to our understanding of women’s use of social media as well as existing MLM communication literature to qualify hunzoning as a computer-mediated-communication expectancy violation.2020, Naomi L. Yanike, “Hunzoning: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Expectancy Violations Surrounding Multi-Level Marketing Message Strategies on Facebook”, in Dissertatations, University of Nebraska

Forms of hunzone

third-person singular presenthunzones
present participlehunzoning
past participlehunzoned
pasthunzoned

Origin of hunzone

From hun (“a woman involved in an MLM”) + zone, by analogy with friendzone.

Questions about hunzone

What does hunzone mean?
Hunzone means to contact an acquaintance or former friend on social media, with the intention of recruiting them to a multi-level marketing scheme.
What part of speech is hunzone?
Hunzone is a verb.
What is the past tense of hunzone?
The past tense of hunzone is hunzoned.

Words near hunzone in the dictionary

  1. Hunza water
  2. Hunza-Nagar District
  3. Hunzib
  4. Hunziker
  5. Hunzikers
  6. hunzone
  7. hunzoned
  8. hunzones
  9. hunzoning
  10. Huo
  11. Huocheng

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