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keypal

noun

Etymology

From key + pal, in reference to the computer keyboard.

  1. derived from भ्रातृ — “brother”
  2. derived from phral — “brother”
  3. borrowed from pal — “brother, friend”
  4. compounded as keypal — “key + pal”

Definitions

  1. The email equivalent of a penpal

    The email equivalent of a penpal; someone with whom to exchange email for the simple joy of communicating.

    • The most common type of person-to-person contact is through keypal exchanges. (The modern version of penpals.) Many organizations exist to help teachers to find suitable keypal connections for their students.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for keypal. 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