venmo means an account on the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, venmo ranks #7,444 of 42,747 for Qualifying.
Etymology
After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons: We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.
noun
- An account on the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.
verb
- To use the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system, originally principally for splitting bills such as for food, drinks, entertainment, and transportation.e.g.“Don’t want to bother splitting the brunch check five ways? Split it two ways instead, and three people will have some Venmoing to do.” — 2013 August 5, Emma Roller, “The Spawn of Facebook and PayPal”, in Slate:
- To transfer money to someone using the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.e.g.“"Keeps to himself," he said, "Venmos the rent. Never calls to fix nothin'." In other words, a perfect tenant.” — 2020, John McMahon, The Evil Men Do, page 176:
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