gchat

plural gchats

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

   I couldn't check emails in the lunch line or be distracted by texts, DMs or gchats.

   2018 October 5, Matthew Kitchen, “How to Disconnect From ‘Always On’ Work Culture”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   2:40 p.m.: Surprise gchat from hot lawyer I met at a work event a few weeks ago. We’ve been trying to grab drinks again, but our schedules haven’t matched up. He wants to see me tonight.

   2010 October 4, “The Horny Single Gay Guy Wondering If All NYC Gays (Except Him) Are in Open Relationships”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2018

   My friend J. and I like to talk on the phone, but only after she has sent me a gmail to propose a gchat, during which we determine if a call is actually warranted and whether I should use her home, mobile, main office or satellite office number.

   2011 August 31, Frank Bruni, “Frank Bruni”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2011

   As much as we know, rationally, that they are “just like us,” it seems like celebrities must be exempt from the modern anxieties of devising subject lines or deciding how many frowning emoticons are enough to adequately convey empathy or judging how long to wait to respond to a gchat.

   2013 September 16, Josh Duboff, “Revealed! The Peculiar E-mail Stylings of One Kirsten Dunst”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015

   OK, I know neither Hull nor Peterborough are in France but someone in the office shouted “Maddison has gone” and sent me a gchat so I felt compelled to put it up.

   2020 January 31, Marcus Christenson, “Transfer deadline day: Ighalo's Manchester United loan move confirmed - as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2020

present singular third person gchats · participle present gchatting · participle past gchatted · past gchatted

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

   We emailed, gchatted, talked on the phone a few times.

   2012 May 8, Jennifer Miller, “Jonah: November 2012”, in The Year of the Gadfly: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 238

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   11:40 a.m.: Lawyer gchats me, asking how I’m doing. I ask him what he’s up to this weekend. He responds: “Spending time with boyfriend’s family.”

   2010 October 4, “The Horny Single Gay Guy Wondering If All NYC Gays (Except Him) Are in Open Relationships”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2018

   It's that time of year when we spoil our children garbage-rotten with toys, toys, and more toys. It's the reason for the season! In fact, right before I signed off from my last shift before Christmas, I gchatted my boss "Merry Christmas! Now I gotta go buy some educational toys my nieces will hate!"

   2012 December 27, Karolina Dean...Big money STILL weaves a mighty web..., quoting an article by Laura Beck, “Are Friendship Bracelet Kits the New Exploding Volcanoes?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Jul 2026

   Vanessa Hudgens gchats Zac: u r playing a superhero, huh???

   2014 May 16, Josh Duboff, “Imagined Celebrity Connections: Beyoncé and Solange Discuss the Elevator Video”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015

   But then I gchatted about it with a friend of mine who was a bartender for a long time, and she pointed out a more complicated dynamic at play when you compliment a female bartender.

   2015 April 7, Hannah Wren, “Ask Hannah Wren”, in The Philadelphia Secret Admirer, volume 2, number 103, Philadelphia, Pa.: Secret Family Publications, →OCLC, front page, column 3

   Mostly, watching Litchfield inmates frolic around a lake (and pausing the action while I gchatted with people about it) highlighted how much TV watching has become a contemplative, often physically isolated experience.

   2015 July 1, Eric Thurm, “Watching TV Together Sucks”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2015

alternative GChat · alternative gchat

1. colloquialA communication service developed by Google: Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or their replacement Google Chat.

   Hangouts, which is commonly referred to by many as “Gchat,” has been having problems since at least 9:22 a.m., according to Google.

   [2014 March 17, Salvador Rodriguez, “Google Hangouts, Drive go down for some users, Twitter panic follows”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2014

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   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.

   2017 June 26, Colleen Rothman, “RIP Gchat”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022

   "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."

   2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, pages 62–63

   Synonyms: Gtalk, Gmessage

plural Gchats · alternative GChat · alternative gchat

1. colloquialA message or chat on Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat.

   I was getting Gchats from colleagues throughout the day who couldn't manage to put the book down to do their work.

   2019 August 8, Jocelyn Silver, quoting Casey McQuiston, “How ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Became the Unlikely Book of the Summer”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Recently, I got a Gchat from Brendan Emmett Quigley, who wanted to run a clue for the answer FAKE NEWS by me — “Indefinite article?”.

   2017 January 14, Deb Amlen, quoting Joel Fagliano, “Grammar Lesson”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2017

   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.”

   2018 April 17, Madison Malone Kircher, “My Exes, My Echo, and Me”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2018

present singular third person Gchats · participle present Gchatting · participle past Gchatted · past Gchatted · alternative GChat · alternative gchat

1. ambitransitivecolloquialTo talk (to someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat; to send (someone) a message on any of these services.

   We Skype, Viber and Gchat every day.

   2014 January 10, Betsy Farber, “Love across the International Date Line”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2025

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   2:55 p.m.: Pseudo Gchats me. Looks like he might be interested in hanging out tonight after all.

   2008 August 4, Arianne Cohen, “The Aspiring Cool Best Friend With Benefits”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2018

   The other is the “friendternet,” where I cruise through Instagram, Gchat with people, field messages about birthday dinners and wedding showers, and generally do things that feel extracurricular, like deleting emails from ZocDoc.

   2015 June 19, Laura Bennett, “What I Read (Even When I’m Not Trying to Impress You)”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2019

   A few months ago, a friend from graduate school asked if I wanted to Gchat (which has since folded into Google Hangouts).

   2017 November 3, JoAnna Novak, “AIM was more than a chat app. It taught girls to be comfortable with their sexuality.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2017

   A few days later, Dima Gchatted me to say that he had lost the final hearing on his case; […]

   2018, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 253

2. colloquialditransitiveTo send (something) to (someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat.

   If someone tweets or Gchats you a term you don’t understand, you can just fire up Urban [Dictionary] to find the definition.

   2014 September 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The ultimate glossary of all things internet: from 4chan to Zynga”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2014

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   My 140-character journey began when my friend Diana Gchatted me a no-fuss elevator pitch during the mid-workday afternoon slump: “Hey, I’m on this new site where you can write and post short thoughts. I think you’d be good at it.”

   2017 February 24, Aparna Nancherla, “To Tweet Is Human, to Delete Divine”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2017

   But in an effort to cheer myself up just a bit, I decided to play a practical joke on my sister, since I knew I wouldn’t be sending a “Guess who’s engaged?” e-mail for a while. I Gchatted Jasmine that exact message, snickering because I’d done this two times before, and she’d freaked out every single time.

   2017 March 21, Joi-Marie McKenzie, chapter 3, in The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me, New York, N.Y.: Center Street, →ISBN, page 20

   As we both typed away in our respective rooms, she would Gchat me things like, “I put 20 gumballs in my mouth and am topless.”

   2021 February 16, Tracy Clark-Flory, “Cautionary”, in Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 97

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

   Tencent’s QQ and WeChat chat services top U.S. counterparts like AIM and GChat.

   2012 October 5, Christopher Beam, “The Chinese Steve Jobs Is Probably a Pirate”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019

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   The debate, as we previously mentioned, was sponsored by Google, and when candidates’ answers ran over the allotted time, a GChat noise—bing!—loudly sounded to indicate that they were to wrap things up.

   2011 September 23, Juli Weiner, “Debate Re-cap: Rick Perry Would Like to Combine Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain into One Caingrich”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2015

   A wrenching breakup is narrated via Facebook, GChat, Skype and a number of other mediating and alienating applications.

   2014 February 7, Teddy Wayne, “The 7-Day Digital Diet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2014

   so what’s the deal with question marks online is the collective Internet too lazy to use the Shift key does anybody even care / I pose these questions, such as they are, because lately in my Twitter feed and GChat conversations I’ve noticed sentences that look like the one above.

   2014 April 2, Rebecca Cohen, “Is the Question Mark Disappearing”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2019

   Much of our GIF use is trapped in desktop/laptop based messaging though — in GChat or across Facebook or Twitter.

   2014 May 20, Caitlin Dewey, “‘It’s about measuring that intangible human experience’: A Q&A with the MIT researchers studying GIFs”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 May 2014

   If you’re lucky enough to work in a fairly casual office, you might know the feeling of spending half the day on GChat.

   2014 December 4, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The 10 best messaging apps”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Dec 2014

plural GChats

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

   I was looking something up on Google when she gets a GChat that says, “I wish we were back at the cabin.”

   2024 June 26, Michael Snyder, quoting Roxane Gay, “When I Was 30”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2024

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   Actually, the sound made it very difficult to tell whether those of us watching at home were receiving GChats, say, commending us on a particularly caustic Newt Gingrich pun, or if it was simply the television.

   2011 September 23, Juli Weiner, “Debate Re-cap: Rick Perry Would Like to Combine Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain into One Caingrich”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2015

   MyClaw has access to a bunch of your different things. Right? It might have access to all your GChats, all your work projects, your whole drive, all your emails.

   2026 April 28, Meghan Bobrowsky, “Inside Meta’s Big AI Pivot - The Journal.”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2026

present singular third person GChats · participle present GChatting · participle past GChatted · past GChatted

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

   In addition, Gwyneth and Cameron text, Zac and Vanessa GChat, and Jennifer Lawrence offers an apology.

   2014 May 16, Josh Duboff, “Imagined Celebrity Connections: Beyoncé and Solange Discuss the Elevator Video”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2015

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   If you handed over your Gmail username and password, the site proceeded to GChat all of your friends to spread the good news about ViddyHo.

   2009 September 23, Chris Wilson, “Your Gullible Friend Has Sent You a Photo!”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2019

   Making his way to the very back row of the classroom, Cruise took a seat quietly amongst the other students, and assumed an attentive posture. After quick, smiley glances in his direction, students resumed their normal classroom activities–they raised their hands and asked questions; they GChatted; they took notes; they browsed Net-a-Porter and Bergdorf Goodman.

   2009 October 5, “Tom Cruise plays Harvard Law student for an hour”, in The Harvard Law Record, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Law School, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2019

   The ante was done dropped on the table: there were a rash of robberies, an emotional baptism, and a shocking ending that had me trying to GChat Jesus for some help, but Jesus was like, “I’m celebrating the New York Mets going to the World Series. Kthxbai.”

   2015 October 22, Phoebe Robinson, “Empire Episode 5 Recap: Please Nobody Touch a Hair on Hakeem’s Chinny Chin Chin”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2015