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sex-text

sex-text verb: to send (someone) a sexually suggestive text message.

Verb

sex-text (third-person singular simple present sex-texts, present participle sex-texting, simple past and past participle sex-texted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To send (someone) a sexually suggestive text message.
    • It was reported [...] they had exchanged raunchy texts. Ms Uchitel denied all that yesterday, saying: "I have never sex-texted in my life."2009 November 30, “I was at Crown but I never ran into Tiger Woods once, says nightclub hostess”, in News.com.au, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2009
    • Eva Longoria splits from Tony Parker because he was allegedly sex-texting former team-mate's wife Erin Barry2010 November 19, “Eva's hubby 'sex-texted mate's wife'”, in The Daily Mirror
    Synonyms:
    sext

Examples of sex-text in a sentence

  • Some of Gary's mannerisms reminded her of her ex, the guy she caught sex-texting with the blonde next door.2011, Diana Kirschner, Sealing the Deal: The Love Mentor's Guide to Lasting Love:
  • “An army of mafiya thugs could be trooping through that woman’s door, and there you are out in la la land, sex-texting your girlfriend.”2008, Shannon McKenna, Extreme Danger (The McCloud Brothers, Book 5):

Synonyms of sex-text

Forms of sex-text

third-person singular presentsex-texts
present participlesex-texting
past participlesex-texted
pastsex-texted

Questions about sex-text

What does sex-text mean?
Sex-text means to send (someone) a sexually suggestive text message.
How do you use sex-text in a sentence?
Some of Gary's mannerisms reminded her of her ex, the guy she caught sex-texting with the blonde next door.
What part of speech is sex-text?
Sex-text is a verb.
What is the past tense of sex-text?
The past tense of sex-text is sex-texted.

Words near sex-text in the dictionary

  1. sex-plus
  2. sex-positive
  3. sex-positivity
  4. sex-ridden
  5. sex-starved
  6. sex-text
  7. sex-texted
  8. sex-texting
  9. sex-texts
  10. sex-traffic
  11. sex-trafficked

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