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subtweet

subtweet noun: a tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.

Noun

subtweet (plural subtweets)

  1. (social media) A tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.
    • But it was also a subtweet, addressed to one person but meant for someone else entirely.2014, Daleen Berry, Geoffrey Fuller, The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
    • Curt texts, unanswered emails, Facebook statuses declaring “someone” to be an idiot, the notorious subtweet; if you can communicate with it, people can be passive aggressive with it.2015 February 19, Dean Burnett, “OK, don't read this article about passive-aggressive behaviour. Honestly, it's fine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. (broadly) Any social media post of this type, regardless of which service it is posted on.

Verb

subtweet (third-person singular simple present subtweets, present participle subtweeting, simple past and past participle subtweeted)

  1. (social media) To post a message of this kind.
    • More often than not, they employed this term when referencing various teen dramas that occurred between friends and classmates that required insider knowledge to decode. In other words, teens subtweet to talk behind someone else's back.2014, danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (page 69)
    • A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, transitive) To speak obliquely about (a person).
    • Schumer's remarks were oblique enough that no one will be able to say for sure whether he was subtweeting Trump.2017 January 20, Aaron Blake, “Chuck Schumer sent a pretty pointed message to Donald Trump, right in front of him”, in The Washington Post

subtweet meaning in Tamil

subtweet in Tamil

சுட்டுரைத் திறனாய்வர்

Forms of subtweet

Noun
pluralsubtweets
Verb
third-person singular presentsubtweets
present participlesubtweeting
past participlesubtweeted
pastsubtweeted

Origin of subtweet

Blend of subliminal + tweet.

Questions about subtweet

What does subtweet mean?
Subtweet means a tweet that refers to another user without tagging their name in the message, so that the user being talked about is not automatically notified.
What is subtweet in Tamil?
Subtweet in Tamil is சுட்டுரைத் திறனாய்வர். See Subtweet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is subtweet?
Subtweet can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of subtweet?
The plural of subtweet is subtweets.

Words near subtweet in the dictionary

  1. subturgid
  2. subturriculate
  3. subturriculated
  4. subtutor
  5. subtutors
  6. subtweet
  7. subtweeted
  8. subtweeting
  9. subtweets
  10. subtwt
  11. subtylotes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: subtweet (page history and authors); subtweet (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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