English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of mate.
2000 January 6, "Stuka_JV44", “Re: Will the new semi-historical event let me play???”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.fighterace[1] (Usenet):
I appreciate your attempt at help and hope the problem can be fixed so I can continue to enjoy this game and fly with my m8's, both JV44 as well as everyone else.
2007, Chris Pawson, Eike Adams, Ralph Tanner., quoting "NB", “Cyberspace: A Contemporary Social Space”, in Karen Malone, editor, Child Space: An Anthropological Exploration Of Young People's Use Of Space[5], →ISBN, page 259:
I'm not their m8s and I feel great cos im free to talk to ne1 else well I was b4 but it feels real gd!!
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