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chatbox

noun

Etymology

From chat + box.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as chatbox — “chat + box”

Definitions

  1. A chat room.

    • How do you handle students who use the Internet for chatboxes and email?

  2. A tagboard.

    • As the video streams, there's a chatbox by the side of it. All viewers are welcome to leave comments in the chatbox or simply watch the chat that is developing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chatbox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA