OkCupiderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

OkCupider (複数形 OkCupiders)

1. A user of the American online dating service OkCupid.
   • 2012 July/August, Dan Slater, “Love Doctors”, in Fast Company, number 167, pages 53–56:

     Solution: OkCupid Labs wants to advance its mobile platform to gather new kinds of data on real-world dating behavior. Via the app, users will be encouraged to give instant feedback about their dates with other OkCupiders.

   • 2013, Kayli Stollak, Granny Is My Wingman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 45, 89–90, 120, and 148:

     Besides, friending an OkCupider and giving him access to all my revealing pictures and info about my friends so he can see who we might know in common felt unnecessary. […] I was on the fence about a second date, but then I thought back to Granny’s feelings about Mike, an OkCupider I got drinks with a few weeks prior. […] We were in the same dating trenches, and it was nice to have common ground to gossip about with a like-minded OkCupider. […] I decided to make myself busy with Drew, an OkCupider who responded to the line in my profile: “You Should Message Me If: You’re not creepy and you are wearing a shirt in your pic.”

   • 2013 June, Annie Daly, “One Girl 4 Blind Dates”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 254, number 6, page 126:

     The app matches you up with other OkCupiders who are in your vicinity.

   • 2014 August, Lauren Bans; Marina Khidekel, “Are You Overdating?”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 257, number 2, page 163:

     5 SIGNS YOU’RE OVERDATING / 1 Fifty percent of your daily calories are from alcohol. Because you’re at a bar every night doing shots with OkCupiders like MuscleMatt57, the shirtless selfie guy who lists “protein powder” as one of his best friends.

   • 2022, Moshe Hoffman; Erez Yoeli, Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour‎^[1], Basic Books, →ISBN:

     For instance, on the dating website OkCupid, men are two inches taller than the national average and a surprising number are exactly six feet tall. Women are a solid one inch taller than the national average. Or are they? The most likely explanation—and, if you believe the blog posts and forum discussions, the one typically assumed by OkCupiders themselves—is that many OkCupiders exaggerate their height by a bit. […] Yet, the threads that were common to our three evidence games are present in this case, too. There’s a motive to persuade (people typically prefer taller partners). There is private information (the OkCupider’s height).