Acknowledgments
We want to express our deepest gratitude to the following people, whose talents, encouragement, love, creativity, and passion have made up what we like to call: TEAM FLIRTEXTING.
To our family, for never doubting our dreams. Thank you for your tireless efforts of raising us to have high standards, so we dont fall for every guy who sends a good flirtext.
Chris Berkenkamp, our Consigliere. Your expert advice kept us at home writing instead of out gallivanting the city. Thank you for your guidance and for keeping us on track!
Biggest thanks goes to our incredible agent, Sarah Dickman, whose support and cheerleading is what has made our book possible. You believed in our project from the beginning and because of you, the world will now know how to flirtext.
Ann Treistman: We are so thankful to have such a cool editor who helped turn our flirtexting ideas, stories, and woes into a beautiful and easy-to-read guide. Thank you for your patience, help, and all your hard work in making our book the best it can be.
Thanks to everyone at Skyhorse Publishing for believing in us and for working so hard to get our book out there. We are truly grateful for all you have done!
LeAnna Weller Smith: Thank you for making our book so stunning. Your designs brought us to tears.
Maria Ponce: You are a rock star photographer with ah-mazing talent! We are so grateful for all your beautiful photos. Thank you!
Our friend and PR pistol Melissa Little Memphis Baer. Thanks for looking out for us and for promoting FLIRTEXTING where it counts. Love you.
Matt Sugarman: Thanks for doing a sweet job of making sure all our boring legal documents are in order. You are awesome!
Katie Dox: Thanks for your help beautifying our first born idea and packaging it well.
A special thanks goes out to a few of our incredible family and friends, whose involvement in our book has been invaluable. You guys helped us shut it down: Courtney, Jenna, Erica, Candice, Mirelle, Peter, Lauren, Becca, Nisha, Anna, Jessica, Hillary, Jason, Marc, Nat, and Richard. We love you and are eternally grateful for your enthusiastic encouragement and generous support.
And to the rest of our wonderfully social friends who poured out their stories, life lessons, and amazing quotes to us, thank you! You all made this book better than we ever thought it could be. We heart you and owe you a beverage of your choice.
And finally, a great big thanks to all the hot boys of NYC and LA, who inspired us to the point we felt the need to write a book about it. Without you guys, none of this would have been possible.
Wink and Shotgun, Deb and Liv.
flirtexting dictionary
<3 Love or heart
B4 Before
BC Because
Besos Means kisses in Spanish. An alternative to xoxo when signing off.
BF Boyfriend or current crush
BFF Best friend forever
BFFAE Best friend forever and ever
Boyf Boyfriend
bro Brother
BRB Be right back
Brill Brilliant
BTW By the way
clutch When something is convenient or handy.
Example: My bf loves watching Gossip Girl too! How clutch!?
ciao Can be a greeting or sign-off; means both hello and goodbye in Italian.
Cheers A British signoff.
C See
Dreamy The new cool.
Epic Something thats a huge deal or great.
F2F Face to face
FBF Favorite boyfriend. This is the boyfriend that you liked the most, maybe even loved. We dont just throw this phrase around. There can only be one of these.
First Class Great
Fo Sho For sure
French Smooch, kiss, anything involving a little harmless tongue action.
FYI For your information
G1 Good one!
G2G or GTG Got to go
GF Girlfriend
Goss Gossip
IDK I dont know
JK Just kidding
KIT Keep in touch
KMA Kiss my ass
K Okay
LMK Let me know
LNBT Late Night Booty Text; a flirtext sent anytime past 10 p.m. asking you what youre doing. These are purely sexual.
LOL Laugh out loud
LOML Love of my life
Luv Love
Lylas Love ya like a sister
Mental Better than amazing. Example: Um, did u see my new Louboutins ? Theyre mental!!
MTE My thoughts exactly
MYOB Mind your own business
NBD No big deal!
Neat The word we use when were bored with what youre telling us. Example: Boy: I make over 500K a year and drive a Mercedes and have a house in Miami... You: Neat. (You may or may not want to also roll your eyes here.)
NOYB None of your business
NRN No response necessary
Obvy Obviously
OMG Oh my god
PBF Potential boyfriend
PDA Public display of affection
Perf Shortened version of perfect. Also to be used as a confirmation to something: Meet me at 8pm? Perf.
QT Quality time
R Are
Rad Another word for cool or awesome.
Shut up! Get out!
Special To be used when someones off the wall.
Example: He got kicked out of gym for wearing girl shorts. Yeah, hes special.
SOL Shit out of luck
SOS The international distress signal meaning Save our Ship. We use it to signify Help me.
SS Social Suicide. Example: Mis-texting your current crush (instead of your BFF) that you think his brother his hotter than he is would be total SS!
THX or TY Thank you
TMI Too much information
TTYL Talk to you later
U You
U2 You too
UR Youre
Vintage Referring to someone you consider way too old to date, or a reference to old news.
Example: Ryan is hot, hes just way too vintage for me.
Word Multiple meanings: for sure, I agree, absolutely. Example: Boy: Meet me at my place at nine? You: Word
WTD Whats the deal?
WTF What the f*ck!
XO kisses and hugs
Y Why
Introduction
Text in the City
Ill do whatever it takes to get girls to go out with me. If the new thing is wearing a bag over my head, then thats what Im gonna do. Right now it happens to be texting. So Im all over it.
Eric
Recently, we were having drinks in the city with a few of our girlfriends when Olivia received a text message from her current crush. We instantly got excited and screamed for her to read it out loud for us all to hear. After analyzing every last word he wrote, we each shared our brilliant thoughts on how Olivia should respond. We put lots of time and energy into concocting something delicious ... and finally came up with the best possible text! And as an added touch, we delayed sending the text for two hours. The result: an immediate response and, soon after, an official date invite. Believe it or not, you have the secret weapon in your hand to whatever kind of relationship you want with the guy on the other endfriendship, innocent flirtation, possible hook-up, or romance.
Your cell phone has become the most widely used instrument in scoring that hot date, resulting in the emancipation of flirtexting (or the flirtext ).
A flirtext is any text message sent between you and a boy you would like to date or are currently dating (i.e., someone you would like to make out with or are currently making out with). These texts are normally comprised of the flirty, witty banter that you throw back and forth with each other that typically leads to a date and, if youre lucky, then some. You love this type of flirting over text because its a noncommittal way for you to let him know you are digging him.