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Definition of IM
IM
noun
- an Instant Message.
He's been sending me IMs all evening, but I've just been ignoring them.
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Last edited on Dec 07 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 07 2011.
verb - intransitive
- to use an Instant Messaging service.
Are you IMing? I told you to do your homework!
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Last edited on Dec 07 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 07 2011.
verb - transitive
- to contact a person via an Internet-based "Instant Messaging" service, such as MSN Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger.
If Mike comes online, tell him to IM me.
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Last edited on Dec 07 2011. Submitted by Jared M. from Seattle, WA, USA on Jan 20 2002.
- to send something via an Instant Messaging service.
He just IMed the cutest poem.
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Last edited on Dec 07 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Dec 07 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'Internet, texting, SMS, email, chat acronyms (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "oh, I see". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I want to fall in love". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I don't give a fuck." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "from the article." | |
| Definitions include: "hacker". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "love you like a sister". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "in case you missed it". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "can anyone else". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a constitutional lawyer". | |
| Definitions include: woman. | |
| Definitions include: "you". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you have been trolled", i.e. you have fallen victim to an internet troll. | |
| Definitions include: to "text" - i.e. send a text message. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Oh my God", a general-purpose exclamation. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "laughing my rear off" or "laughing my rump off". | |
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Other terms relating to 'instant': | |
| Definitions include: Something or someone that makes you automatically/instantly throw up. | |
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| Definitions include: an uncaring or uninterested retort; "talk to the hand". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "end of message". | |
| Definitions include: to understand. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "private message". | |
| Definitions include: Private Pee Message means someone that is Private Messaging a person, but they are not being serious with the person they are Private Messaging. Example: | |
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