tinder

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.

   “Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]”

verb

1. (transitive)To set fire to; torch.

   “Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?”

2. (intransitive)To use the dating application Tinder.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

name

1. A surname.
2. An online dating and geosocial networking application, launched in 2012, in which users "swipe right" to like or "swipe left" to dislike other users' profiles.

   “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.’””

   “Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.”