Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable)An informal form of written language used on the Internet, characterized by abbreviations and emoticons.

Origin

From net + -speak, coined by British linguist David Crystal in 2001 who originally wrote i

From net + -speak, coined by British linguist David Crystal in 2001 who originally wrote it capitalized as "Netspeak".

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