When delays and congestion in the cellular network cause frustrating delays in the delivery time of a text message potentially causing a social fail.
(texting)
Original sender: 8:00 : "Bro, what's that address again?"
Recipient's Reply: 8:30 "idfk."
9:00 : "wtf took you so long, stop masturbating."
9:30: "I'm not man, it must be text lag"
Original sender: 8:00 : "Bro, what's that address again?"
Recipient's Reply: 8:30 "idfk."
9:00 : "wtf took you so long, stop masturbating."
9:30: "I'm not man, it must be text lag"
by MrAwesom3 July 24, 2010
1) The temporary condition of slow responding when texting due to an unforseen circumstance.
2) the long time it took for a person to text back
2) the long time it took for a person to text back
by Mr. Toasty December 03, 2011
When In The Process of texting a individual, You Send Them Two text with nothing in Common, but they are forced by Proper Texting Guidelines to respond to Both Texts, Causing A message Lag between you and the individual, Pushing you off topic.
Text Lagging-
Texter1:Hey When's Amy's Birthday?
Texter1:Do you Like My New Shoes?
Texter2:April 27th
Texter2:Nah, too Colorful
Texter1:Hey When's Amy's Birthday?
Texter1:Do you Like My New Shoes?
Texter2:April 27th
Texter2:Nah, too Colorful
by Shamless20 April 23, 2009
The phenomenon when you go to send a text, or google something, on your phone and realize that you were already in the middle of some other task that you must finish before texting which leads to another task and then you forget the original task or text. Then you finally send the text a while later.
by Quotidianian August 21, 2012
The time between when the light turns green and the moron in front of you looks up from his texting and realizes it.
Intersections are much safer now that we have text lag - no one ever takes off as soon as the light changes any more.
by Valet Parking Hater January 09, 2015