type tease 

When someone that you are IMing with types out a message but then never hits enter to send it, prompting the status message "friend has started typing" or "friend has entered text" for a while. A type tease then deletes the partially or wholly written message, making the "friend has started typing" status go away, so you know that they were going to send something but did not.

I was chatting with Melissa last night, and she always types stuff out, but then deletes it. She's such a type tease!

type tease by ahonnecke April 13, 2011

Type Teasing 

To be notified by an instant messaging system that the other user is typing, but never receive an actual message.

When using instant messaging the program will notify you that the other person is typing. Type teasing is when you see this notification but do not receive an actual instant message.

Type Teasing by That's Mr Smooth To You October 23, 2009