checking email

A slang term for having excessive screen time on handheld devices (iPad, smartphone), like the one done by these so-called "iPad kids"

Every time I see my cousin glued to her phone, I can't help but think she's just "checking email" again—part of these "iPad kids" generation that can't put their devices down!

checking email by Emotional Cruiser February 14, 2026

Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder (OCECD) 

- noun

1. A psychiatric disorder characterized by a subject's obsessive thoughts and subsequent compulsions to check his/her email.

Tara's Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder (OCECD) has severely compromised her job performance.

Obsessive-Compulsive Email Checking Disorder (OCECD) by April D. November 5, 2007

checking my email 

1) an excuse to escape an uncomfortable situation
2) an excuse to spend time/for spending time on the computer

1)
Woman: Do you want to watch another episode of Glee?
Man: Yeah, I just have to check my email - you start without me.

2)
Man: It's almost midnight. What are you doing?
Woman: (shopping online) Just checking my email.

checking my email by katsafterme June 20, 2011

checking e-mail

slang term for masturbating. People say they are checking their email when they are really looking at internet porn.

be right back, im gonna be checking e-mail.

checking e-mail by wkrpinpitts February 11, 2010

checking emails into a sock 

masturbating to internet pornography

sorry i didnt respond to your phonecall, i was checking emails into a sock

checking emails into a sock by will March 31, 2006