Instant message

/ˈɪnstənt mˈɛsɪdʒ/

Instant message

an online message that appears to the recipient as soon as it is delivered

Examples

1. It does electronic documents, emails, instant messages.

2. I can get instant messages, texts, mobile phones, emails.

3. At issue are instant messages from a Boeing pilot who, in his words, lied unknowingly to officials about a new flight control system.

4. And toward the end of the season, March of 2006, he got an AOL instant message.