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xpost

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English

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Etymology

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From x- +‎ post.

Noun

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xpost (plural xposts)

  1. Abbreviation of crosspost. [from 1989]
    • 1989 March 24, shabtai, “alt.sex Xpost to soc.culture.jewis”, in soc.culture.jewish[1] (Usenet):
    • 1990 February 20, Nelson Broat, “A possible solution to the aquaria Xpost problem.”, in news.groups[2] (Usenet):

Verb

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xpost (third-person singular simple present xposts, present participle xposting, simple past and past participle xposted)

  1. Abbreviation of crosspost. [from 1988]
    • 1988 April 1, Peter Schachte, “devices and directories”, in comp.sys.amiga.tech[3] (Usenet):
      [still xposting till I hear that .tech is official]
    • 1988 May 18, Eric Townsend, “Wanted: new/used 7300/3b1”, in misc.wanted[4] (Usenet):
      (Sorry to xpost, but I wanted to give everybody a chance to reply... :-)