online chat
noun
Communication in real time between two or more simultaneous users of a computer network (now usually the Internet).
- The term is applied to both text-based communication and videoconferencing, and many online chat services offer both..
Origin
1980s.
- lead pencil
- lead poisoning
- lead shot
- lead someone a dance (or a merry dance)
- lead someone a merry dance
- lead someone astray
- lead someone by the nose
- lead someone on
- lead someone to the altar
- lead someone up (or down) the garden path
- lead someone up the aisle
- lead story
- lead-swinger
- lead tetraethyl
- lead the field
- Southern Lights
- southernliness
- southernly
- southern magnolia
- southern manatee
- southernmost
- southernness
- Southern Ocean
- Southern Oscillation
- southern pine