Definition of "Tinder"

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.’”

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

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.

2016 March 7, Khaley Fenn, edited by Alexandria Santamaria, Swipe Right‎, FriesenPress

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.

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

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.

2021 August 17, Merissa Nathan Gerson, Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving‎, Mandala Publishing, page 64