subtweeting

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)
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

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