Double text

Etymology

A straightforward compound of “double” and “text” (as a verb, to send a text message), arising with mobile texting and hardening into a named social rule during the smartphone era of the 2010s. Its charge comes from the unwritten convention that you wait for a response before writing again.

verb · /DUB-uhl tekst/
To send a second message before getting any reply to the first.
What it names
It names a small, freighted act of digital etiquette. Because a reply is “owed,” sending again unprompted can read as eager, anxious, or pushy — so “double texting” has become a self-conscious thing people warn themselves against, joke about, or defiantly do anyway.
Example
I know I shouldn’t double text, but it’s been a day and I’m dying to know what she thought.
Related idea
The flip side of left on read: double texting is what you are tempted to do after being left on read.