1. text message - Noun
2. text message - Verb
text message (plural text messages)
A brief electronic message sent between mobile phones.
text message (third-person singular simple present text messages, present participle text messaging, simple past and past participle text messaged)
(transitive or intransitive) To transmit a text message.
I told him to text message you when he's finished.
Please text message the directions to me.
Just text message me the information.
Stop text messaging during class time.
She's been text messaging all afternoon.
Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest. Bryan Callen
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. Daniel Steele
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage. Garcelle Beauvais
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother. Ariana Grande
I've got corporate executives, my bosses... this is true... who will text message me... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that. Stuart Scott