An alias used on an email address used to communicate with people whom you do not wish to know your real identity or used to conceal information. An alias used to collect spam or hide your email from your significant other
Hey, you're cute, we should keep in touch. Use my emailias to get in touch with me so my girlfriend doesn't find out.
by Vinny DaRose February 16, 2009
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The tendency of an estranged or newly-but-not-necessarily-intentionally-acquired colleague, school chum, friend or family member to send every cute, multiply-forwarded message about care bears, conspiracy theories, scandalous photos, religious views, politics, cheesy poetry, rude jokes, or people-famous-for-being-famous to you and about a hundred other 'close friends' you don't know in a note without personal explanation other than something bland like "Cute!" or "You'll like this!". Subject headings are often all caps with multiple exclamation points, prefixed with varying numbers of "Fw:" and "Re:". Often, the actual content being referred to is multiple forwarded emails deep, forcing the recipient to have to dig through other people's comments and a slew of similarly unfamiliar email addresses, along with their impersonal comments like "Oh, gross!", or "What would your mother say?", etc. Generally this happens when the sender feels he or she is not properly communicating with said friends, family, colleagues, etc., and feels compelled to at least appear to be "making the effort to communicate". This ostensibly gives the sender a modicum of relieved self-satisfaction and puts the onus to communicate back on the recipient, but in reality only further alienates the sender from all recipients and ends up not being satisfactory to anyone. If the sender does not at some point come to the realization that sending unpreambled forwards amounts to spam that doesn't even lead to self-satistfaction, it is hopeful that a true friend or valued family member will put the sender back on the path to better communication by asking them to stop the nonsense. Replying to just such a letter with a link to this particular definition might suffice in making such a friend come to his or her senses.
n. emailsturbator - someone you know who sends you useless forwarded email.
v. emailsturbate - intransitive - "to emailsturbate on" (a friend, family member, a group of people) - to forward a useless previously-forwarded email to everyone in your address book.
The tendency of an estranged or newly-but-not-necessarily-intentionally-acquired colleague, school chum, friend or family member to send every cute, multiply-forwarded message about care bears, conspiracy theories, scandalous photos, religious views, politics, cheesy poetry, rude jokes, or people-famous-for-being-famous to you and about a hundred other 'close friends' you don't know in a note without personal explanation other than something bland like "Cute!" or "You'll like this!". Subject headings are often all caps with multiple exclamation points, prefixed with varying numbers of "Fw:" and "Re:". Often, the actual content being referred to is multiple forwarded emails deep, forcing the recipient to have to dig through other people's comments and a slew of similarly unfamiliar email addresses, along with their impersonal comments like "Oh, gross!", or "What would your mother say?", etc. Generally this happens when the sender feels he or she is not properly communicating with said friends, family, colleagues, etc., and feels compelled to at least appear to be "making the effort to communicate". This ostensibly gives the sender a modicum of relieved self-satisfaction and puts the onus to communicate back on the recipient, but in reality only further alienates the sender from all recipients and ends up not being satisfactory to anyone. If the sender does not at some point come to the realization that sending unpreambled forwards amounts to spam that doesn't even lead to self-satistfaction, it is hopeful that a true friend or valued family member will put the sender back on the path to better communication by asking them to stop the nonsense. Replying to just such a letter with a link to this particular definition might suffice in making such a friend come to his or her senses.
n. emailsturbator - someone you know who sends you useless forwarded email.
v. emailsturbate - intransitive - "to emailsturbate on" (a friend, family member, a group of people) - to forward a useless previously-forwarded email to everyone in your address book.
"He's retired, widowed, and now resorts to emailsturbation on his old school chums to fill the empty minutes of his life."
Tom: "I and about thirty people I don't know just got emailsturbated on by Joe about some alien whacko conspiracy theory."
Cho: "Dude, I feel for you... Freaking mailsturbators..."
Tom: "I and about thirty people I don't know just got emailsturbated on by Joe about some alien whacko conspiracy theory."
Cho: "Dude, I feel for you... Freaking mailsturbators..."
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Tom's emailishment of his boss' email asking him to go to lunch led him to think that she wanted to have sex with him.
by branain June 26, 2009
Get the emailishment mug.a series of emails that result from either miscommunication or a lack of understanding about a particular topic
Dude, my friend totally invited me to a party Saturday night, but he didn't tell me where it was, when it started, or who would be there, so we had an emailathon until he finally told me all about it.
by KaraokeFanboy March 23, 2010
Get the emailathon mug.Sending an email to oneself when a flash drive/writable disk is not readily available to hold files for transport.
by DannyManCan August 20, 2010
Get the Emailsterbate mug.When one person sends an email to another person, but they don't know the answer so they forward on to someone else they think is the right person to deal with the problem, that person in turn also doesn't know and once again forwards the email on to another person. This chain keeps on going until someone with the knowledge and expertise gets the forwarded email and eventually answers the question or sorts out the problem. All other people in the email chain are simply part of the relay of getting the baton (the email) to the last person who can cross over the finish line
The CEO Pierre sent an email to Antoine asking him for some figures for his work. Antoine doesn't have this information but thinks Gisele in Performance team might know and forwards this email on to her. Gisele also doesn't know but forwards the email onto Elena in Reporting team. Elena also doesn't know but forwards it on to Gary in Data Admin. Gary does in fact have a list of the figures Steve is requesting and so answers Pierre with the information required and thus finishing the email relay
by gekko January 8, 2013
Get the Email relay mug.A person who writes an aggressive and/or offensive email to one or multiple people, pointing the 'finger of blame' and/or undermining them, then when they see these people in person, they act as if nothing has happened.
Jo sends an email to Kate stating:
"Hi Kate, Your suggestion for the end of year celebration sounds boring so we're going to go with my other idea. Jo."
Then when Jo walks into the kitchen at the same time as Kate, Jo acts like Kate's best friend, "Hey Kate, How are things in your area today?"... Kate thinks Jo is an idiot and coward.
Jo has been an Email Hero - Tough in email, gutless in person.
"Hi Kate, Your suggestion for the end of year celebration sounds boring so we're going to go with my other idea. Jo."
Then when Jo walks into the kitchen at the same time as Kate, Jo acts like Kate's best friend, "Hey Kate, How are things in your area today?"... Kate thinks Jo is an idiot and coward.
Jo has been an Email Hero - Tough in email, gutless in person.
by OrgSavvy June 11, 2013
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