Can "email" be a shortened form of "email address"? [closed]

Can I use the word "email" to mean "email address"?

For example:

  • Please tell me your email.
  • You can use your email as an ID.

Dictionaries such as MW don’t list this definition.


OED (paywalled) does have "email" as available to mean "email address".

A system for sending textual messages (with or without attached files) to one or more recipients via a computer network (esp. the internet); a message or messages sent using this system. Also: an email address.

Even so, it's in common use, even if Merriam-Webster hasn't caught up yet — although OED updated its entry in 2011, so it's not exactly a cutting-edge use of language.