Meaning of online date | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A date over the Internet.
2. A person dated over the Internet.

Examples

“We had arranged to see one another again on the Sunday but I never heard from him again. Well, that is until I met my now husband a few months after the online date.”

“One male study participant casually admitted to a “find my flaw mentality,” which mindset may be why so many online dates seem to have a strange, interview-like feel. […] One of my first online dates was with a financial executive who admitted that he’d had something like eighty online dates in the last year, but that he rarely asked a woman on a second date.”

“It’s the succeeding part I’m having a little more trouble with. A job writing obituaries and one online date is not turning my life around.”

“I lost Nick and I don’t find Chinese men attractive. We used to make fun of this, but it’s not fun anymore. I want to go back to see my online date in London or find a former classmate to get married.”

“When he finished the phone call I quizzed him asking him about the person he’d mentioned on the phone. It turned out that my online date was a really good friend of his and had worked with him on a Channel 4 programme.”

“He then asked the prosecutors and the defense attorneys to stand up, and he introduced them to the court. Much to my surprise, up at the front, looking serious, there stood one of my past online dates—the handsome prosecutor.”

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