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  • noun slang One who spends a great deal of time sending text messages.

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text +‎ -aholic

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Examples

  • Troy Solomon says he'd consider himself a "textaholic" - during a long distance relationship last year, Solomon says he exchanged about 5,000 text messages with his girlfriend each month.

    News Channel 9: Local News 2008

  • Don't take calls or texts from her either (especially if she's a textaholic or at all needy).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows bondms9 2010

  • Toxic debt has beaten bromance and textaholic to become Australia's Word of the Year, contest organiser Macquarie Dictionary announced Wednesday.

    India eNews 2009

  • The selection committee gave honourable mentions to bromance, which describes a non-sexual friendship between two males, and textaholic, someone who sends an inordinate number of text messages.

    India eNews 2009

  • Laura Ray, 22, a junior studying French at the University of Arkansas, is an admitted textaholic.

    unknown title 2009

  • Laura Ray, 22, a junior studying French at the University of Arkansas, is an admitted textaholic.

    unknown title 2009

  • But what if you're neither a mute call-miser nor a deep-pockets textaholic?

    Crave at CNET UK 2009

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