"ghost-ping" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ghost-pings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghost-ping (plural ghost-pings)
  1. (transitive, Internet slang) The act of ghost-pinging. Tags: Internet, transitive
    Sense id: en-ghost-ping-en-noun-Ka99zstZ

Verb

Forms: ghost-pings [present, singular, third-person], ghost-pinging [participle, present], ghost-pinged [participle, past], ghost-pinged [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} ghost-ping (third-person singular simple present ghost-pings, present participle ghost-pinging, simple past and past participle ghost-pinged)
  1. (transitive, Internet slang) To ping someone or some people and then delete the message with which one pinged them, which causes them to receive a ping notification but no message or sender. Tags: Internet, transitive
    Sense id: en-ghost-ping-en-verb-Ml8SpbGC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for ghost-ping meaning in English (1.9kB)

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