Checking one's email though certain one has received no important communication. Compulsively and frequently checking one's email when one is not expecting an important message.
Between friends in a cybercafe: "Hey could you hurry up so I can get on and check my email?" "Who are you kidding, little bro, you know all your email buddies have dropped you like a brick!" "Yeah, I gotta check my spam. . . vamoose!"
by Russell Clark December 3, 2006