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English
Etymology
From name + search.
Pronunciation
Verb
namesearch (third-person singular simple present namesearches, present participle namesearching, simple past and past participle namesearched)
- (Internet slang) To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.
- Hypernym: egosurf
2018 March 17, Ratio Hornblower (@OneStrawShort), Twitter:Ricky Gervais namesearches himself and that's the funniest thing he does
2022 November 15, Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix), Twitter:You know Elon is namesearching himself in Slack and writing down names of people who make fun of him.
2022 November 29, Chaotina (@dankestofbread), Twitter:Imagine being a gazillionaire and namesearching yourself on Twitter, how sad is that
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:namesearch.
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