message board

noun

1. a website or section of a website that is used for public discussion of a specific topic and on which users can submit or read messages.

   You should post your questions on a parenting message board and get support from other parents.

2. an online discussion group that is maintained on such a website.

   To participate in the message board, you must be a registered user.

message board

noun

1. an internet discussion forum

Word History and Origins

Origin of message board¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

Playoff Expansion Paranoia: College football’s playoff recently grew from four teams to 12, which means that fans, administrators and boosters sit around and think: We might not have been one of the four best programs in the nation, but we better be one of the top 12, or someone’s going be the recipient of a lot of pithy tweets, then some message board groaning, then some booing, then some rumor mongering, and then will be out the door.

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“It kind of takes the joy out of cruising,” said one commentator on a Cruise Critic message board, speaking in particular about the $5 surcharge for additional entrees.

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Online trolls on the message board 4chan encouraged each other to disrupt Indian H-1B workers’ efforts to book seats by finding flights from Indian cities like Mumbai to San Francisco and sitting on bookings as long as possible to clog reservation systems.

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Lawyers for online message board 4chan recently told the BBC that Ofcom had provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for failing to comply with two requests for information.

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Over 70,000 images were leaked and posted on the online message board 4chan - including IDs and selfies of users which were meant to have been for verification purposes only and "deleted immediately".

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