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Etymology
Noun
webchat (plural webchats)
- A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
- 1998, Aliza Sherman, Cybergrrl!: a woman's guide to the World Wide Web:
- Some webchats that deliver a real-time feeling require […] plug-ins, which are mini-software programs that you need to download from the Web onto your computer so your Web browser can launch into chat […]
- 2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216:
- Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007)
Verb
webchat (third-person singular simple present webchats, present participle webchatting, simple past and past participle webchatted)
- (intransitive) To take part in such a conversation.
- 2005, Odebrecht Informa, numbers 116-121, page 39:
- This was the case with Antonio Rodolfo Junior, Braskem's PVC Products and Services Manager, who spent nearly an hour every evening webchatting with his wife and two children, aged 4 and 6, back in Sao Paulo.