Definitions
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- verb To offer
inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He also doesn't overshare, which is a lesson that some users could stand to learn (we kid, Kevin ... we totally kid).
Jackie Chan Enjoys Some Fan Art In This Morning’s Daily TwitPic » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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But this is the era of the "overshare," after all, where deeply personal information regularly makes it to blogs and MySpace pages.
'Open Wide...' 2008
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But this is the era of the "overshare," after all, when deeply personal information regularly makes it to blogs and MySpace pages.
Open Wide … 2008
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Weird at the time to watch that kind of overshare, but I'm impressed with it now looking back.
"It is kind of strange, being, like, a famous guy...." Ann Althouse 2005
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I believe this is what the kids are calling an "overshare" nowadays. ...
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I believe this is what the kids are calling an "overshare" nowadays. ...
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It's almost impossible to "overshare" in this area.
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And Millennials are veterans of the age of overshare, happily building digital identities to augment their physical ones.
Online Dating Startups Drive Matchmaking Makeover Amy Lee 2011
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They're following in the stilletoed footsteps of the first politician's daughter to overshare herself into the spotlight.
Yelena Shuster: A New Kind of Political Daughter Yelena Shuster 2011
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After all, the whole point of all this oversharing social media is to -- well -- overshare.
Gov. Rick Perry blocks journalists on Twitter -- really? 2011
bilby commented on the word overshare
A snippet from our conversation yesterday while waiting to board a flight:
CC - Are we sitting in the same rows? What seat numbers do we have?
RR - I'm 10A.
AL - Oh look, I'm 10C. And that's my bra size too.
JSC - Overshare!
May 25, 2008