gchat
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or their replacement Google Chat.
Colloquial
verb
To talk (to someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat; to send (someone) a message on any of these services.
Colloquial
name
Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
Example Sentences
- "Hangouts, which is commonly referred to by many as “Gchat,” has been having problems since at least 9:22 a.m., according to Google."
- "Let's first acknowledge that Gchat was never officially called Gchat. Launched in February 2006, Google named it Google Talk, refusing to refer to it by its colloquial name. For anyone mourning its demise, which the company announced in a March blog post, those names sound awkward, like they're describing something else. To me, and to many other users, it's Gchat, and always will be."
- ""We're fucked," my adviser told me over Gchat. "Nelson"—Phil Nelson, the outspoken president of our university—"has been treating the endowment like his own personal poker game. I bet we're about to lose some unthinkable chunk of it. And if oil prices collapse, the campus in Qatar is in trouble.""
- "Recently, I got a Gchat from Brendan Emmett Quigley, who wanted to run a clue for the answer FAKE NEWS by me — “Indefinite article?”."
- "So I asked two ex-girlfriends — who were kind enough to respond to my slightly deranged texts and Gchats — to tell me just what was so terrible about dating, as one put it, “an Echo-head.”"
- "I was getting Gchats from colleagues throughout the day who couldn't manage to put the book down to do their work."
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Synonyms
Gtalk
Gmessage