"private-message" meaning in English

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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2008 January 12, Antonia Zerbisias, “Virtual network: Sex and the single girl online […]”, in Saturday Star, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page L2, column 5:",
          "text": "“You can be silly or flirty or whatever you want,” she—assuming she is a she—private-messages me.",
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          "ref": "2012 June 4, Charley Hannagan, “Bullying Poem Stirs Alums […]”, in The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page A-10, column 6:",
          "text": "“They private-messaged me again: ‘Will you come if we raise the money?’ ” she [Lynda Frederick] said.",
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          "ref": "2023 December 9, Roxanne Lambert, quoting Sarah Dickerson, “More than skin deep […]”, in The Hartsville Vidette, volume 161, number 48, Hartsville, Tenn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A1, column 4:",
          "text": "Others have private-messaged me and Venmoed me money for school supplies.",
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          "text": "“You can be silly or flirty or whatever you want,” she—assuming she is a she—private-messages me.",
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