enter the chat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To abruptly appear.

   • Coordinate term: leave the chat
   • Before Covid entered the chat, there were many situations where parents sent their sick children to school and to daycare because they wouldn't get paid if they didn't show up to work.
2. 2

   Used to draw attention to the existence or presence of something.

   • - Black people have no power in America. - Barack Obama has entered the chat.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enter, the, chat.

   • Naturally, you'll be able to chat in real-time with that friend, presumably about the song or the band in question. Friends and "friends of friends" can join up via their activity feeds, and they too enter the chat.

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