Tinder

Tinder (plural Tinders)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Tinder is the 26727^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 911 individuals. Tinder is most common among White (88.36%) individuals.

The application's name is likely derived from the verb tinder (“to set fire to, to torch”), and a play on the various meanings of match (the prototype was called MatchBox).

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Tinder

1. An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.
   • 2022 October 15, Zoe Williams, “Love Island winner Ekin-Su on sex, spin-offs and surgery: ‘I’ve not had anything major done. OK, apart from the boobs’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”

   • 2025 May 10, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

     Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

Tinder (third-person singular simple present Tinders, present participle Tindering, simple past and past participle Tindered)

1. (social media, intransitive) To use the dating application Tinder.
   • 2016 March 7, Khaley Fenn, edited by Alexandria Santamaria, Swipe Right‎^[3], FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs to him, but up pops a message on the Friday night.

   • 2017 September 29, Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan, “4. Electronic Friendships”, in Friendship and Happiness And the Connection Between the Two, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, →ISBN, page 147:

     With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes than spend 50 minutes assessing one potential partner in a traditional face-on-face dating environment.

   • 2021 August 17, Merissa Nathan Gerson, Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving‎^[4], Mandala Publishing, →ISBN, page 64:

     There is a time to Tinder—sometimes it's a great escape, a great delight, a time of needed, almost medicinal, connection. Sometimes it even yields real, loving, and joyous relationships. And, there is a time to refrain from Tindering.

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• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 71.