From shrekking to cookie-jarring: how well do you know the latest dating terms?

In an app-based era, new dating tactics emerge rapidly and while you may have deployed one or been subject to one, how many of the following are real? In the age of app-based romance, fresh dating trends seem to emerge every week. Many of them – in the mould of ghosting and catfishing – are profoundly antisocial, while some are defensive strategies against toxic suitors. More than a few are but new names for disgraceful behaviours as old as time. You may have been the victim of one – or you m...

By Tim Dowling