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quote-tweet

quote-tweet is the alternative spelling of quote tweet.

Meaning of quote tweet

Noun

quote tweet (plural quote tweets)

  1. (Internet) A retweet posted with additional commentary by the retweeter.
    • My most liked post is a quote tweet of the president's Arbor Day greetings in which I insinuated that shrubs should also have a holiday.

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Forms of quote-tweet

Noun
pluralquote-tweets
Verb
third-person singular presentquote-tweets
present participlequote-tweeting
past participlequote-tweeted
pastquote-tweeted

Questions about quote-tweet

What is quote-tweet the alternative spelling of?
Quote-tweet is the alternative spelling of quote tweet.

Words near quote-tweet in the dictionary

  1. quote tweeting
  2. quote tweets
  3. quote unquote
  4. quote-driven
  5. quote-seeker
  6. quote-tweet
  7. quote-tweeted
  8. quote-tweeting
  9. quote-tweets
  10. quote-unquote
  11. quoteable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quote-tweet (page history and authors); quote tweet (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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