Side-post

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A message sent privately to a single member of a listserv. Internet, dated

    "Enough ecchiness from you. It's a cute shoujo story, which I explain in more detail in a side post."

Verb
  1. 1
    To send a side-post. Internet, dated, intransitive

    "You even are so far consumed with your self-importance and propensity to bend others to the way you want them to post by telling me that I am now doing the heinous 'top-posting'. If I could figure a way to side post, you would complain about that, too."

Example

More examples

"Enough ecchiness from you. It's a cute shoujo story, which I explain in more detail in a side post."

Etymology

Probably analogous to top-post and bottom-post.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.