namesearch

English

Etymology

From name +‎ search.

Pronunciation

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Verb

namesearch (third-person singular simple present namesearches, present participle namesearching, simple past and past participle namesearched)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• kiboze