a small building found in New York City, especially in New Yorks Lower East Side. Tenements are usually no more than five stories high, with narrow staircases and tiny apartments. Tenaments were home to many european immigrants during the 19th century. Most tenements were built no later that 1910, and often have features such as hexagonal tial floors charachteristic of that time. Unsafe conditions, especially overcrowding in the tenements caused a lot of sickness and death amoung immigrants, and in 1863, new "tenemant laws" were passes stating things like, all apartments must have windows. Tenaments are very specific to the Lower East Side, but can also be found in east harlem, and other parts of NYC.
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An incident or accident when you collide with someone on the street who is too busy texting to look where they are going.
In the street when you are caught in the path of an oncoming Text Messager, you narrowly escape a Textident by jumping out of the way. Also screaming "Textident!" in their face at the last moment may save you, but 2 out of 3 texters are also wearing headphones and you will probably get mowed down anyway.
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Joe: Hey Jill, did you get that text I sent you last week where I professed my love for you?
Jill: Yeah, that was sweet. Didn't I already reply?! Must have gotten textimental.
Jill: Yeah, that was sweet. Didn't I already reply?! Must have gotten textimental.
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I couldn't understand him through his heavy textcent.
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adj: textventually
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Jane: How long have you and Alex been texting?
Amy: Almost four months. He's the one.
Jane: You have a textventual relationship.
Amy: Almost four months. He's the one.
Jane: You have a textventual relationship.
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