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PMOYS

or pmoys [pee-em-oh-wahy-es] or [pee-mois]

What does PMOYS mean?

If you’re looking to extend your popularity by showing how you’re buddy-buddy with someone cool or just want to feel the love from a friend, you might tell them to PMOYS.

PMOYS is an internet acronym standing for put me on your story or put me on your Snapchat, in reference to the massively popular social-media app.

Related words

face swap, tagged, 😏 Smirking Face emoji, LMP, 😎 Face With Sunglasses emoji, 💯 100 emoji, 🌟 Glowing Star emoji, 😬 Grimacing Face emoji

Where does PMOYS come from?

pics.me.me

PMOYS is primarily used on used on Snapchat, a social-media app around since 2011, though its Stories feature—a kind of curated collection of moments, or Snaps—didn’t launch until 2013. It typically involves one friend sending some kind of picture to another along with the text PMOYS.

Before Snapchat, PMOY(s) was (and is) used as an acronym for Playboy magazine’s so-called Playmate(s) of the Year.

2016 is when PMOYS takes off in the Snapchat lexicon, corresponding to its viral spread on Twitter. By the end of the year, it had become so widely used that, as with so much of internet content, people were already sick of it. Really sick of it.

Played out or not, PMOYS continues, put on Urban Dictionary’s story in 2017. Some people began to use PMOYS to promote their content, such as a new album.

Examples of PMOYS

"Add me on snap pmoys" no thank you 😂
@Jazmin_Vazquez_, September, 2016
some people can make some creative ass “pmoys” slideshows, but when it comes to powerpoint presentations y’all leave most of your slides blank 💀
@rebekvhcarter, September, 2018
Funny
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Who uses PMOYS?

Sometimes, PMOYS is used in a friend request (i.e., add me as a friend on Snapchat), though AMOS (add me on Snapchat) is more common.

Most of the time, PMOYS is a request for someone to put a picture of them, often as appearing with the requested friend, as a way to prove that they are friends. All for that social cred.

pics.me.me

PMOY, typically without the S, still sees some use as a shorthand for Playboy‘s Playmate of the Year.

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Note

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