private message
verb1
Internet To send a private message.
private message
noun1
Internet A message sent to another user of a social media or chat platform through a private channel as opposed to a publicly accessible area or chatroom.
- By then I was receiving dozens of private messages in the game every hour from players I had never met who could see that my guildmate and I were out front: “OMG how did you level so fast?,” “Hey you must have a lot of gold, can I have some?” and of course “You guys are huge nerds.”2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in The New York Times: