namesearch
namesearch verb: to search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
Verb
namesearch (third-person singular simple present namesearches, present participle namesearching, simple past and past participle namesearched)
- To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
- Ricky Gervais namesearches himself and that's the funniest thing he does2018 March 17, Ratio Hornblower (@OneStrawShort), Twitter
- You know Elon is namesearching himself in Slack and writing down names of people who make fun of him.2022 November 15, Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix), Twitter
- Synonyms:
- kiboze
Synonyms of namesearch
Forms of namesearch
| third-person singular present | namesearches |
|---|---|
| present participle | namesearching |
| past participle | namesearched |
| past | namesearched |
Origin of namesearch
From name + search.
Questions about namesearch
- What does namesearch mean?
- Namesearch means to search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
- What part of speech is namesearch?
- Namesearch is a verb.
- What is the past tense of namesearch?
- The past tense of namesearch is namesearched.
Words near namesearch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: namesearch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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