Verb
To make an error trying to send a text; to text the wrong person or send a garbled text.
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Or had Michael misheard or mistexted?
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As I said, I wasn't sure if you were someone who called random numbers to see if anyone would be interested in a ... let's call it a 'spicy' chat, or if you had genuinely mis-texted.
Kitty stared at the phone, urging Ivan to respond. It was unlike him to mistext, even as messed up as he usually was.
Noun
A text message that was mistexted.
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A person who is interested in you will be able to overlook a gaffe or mistext and will probably think it's kinda funny.
This was before the ubiquity of mobile phones and the emerging lexicon of mistexts, so it also made an impression because of the closenss of 'light' and 'life'.
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I never understood the logic behind the random late-night mistexts. Is the assumption that, although I wasn't interested before, a random "hello" faux-intended for someone else will make me realize how much I miss him?