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chain letters

chain letters is the plural of chain letter.

Meaning of chain letter

Noun

chain letter (plural chain letters)

  1. A letter that can be mailed successively to different recipients, with each recipient ostensibly (but sometimes sarcastically) being instructed in the body of the letter to mail the letter to another person or persons.
    • By the second half of the 20th century, chain letters were ubiquitous enough to become a vector for scams, hoaxes, and viral lies. Chain pyramid schemes ran rampant through the U.S. mail system before they were made illegal in 1948.2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic

Questions about chain letters

What is chain letters the plural of?
Chain letters is the plural of chain letter.

Words near chain letters in the dictionary

  1. chain hobble
  2. chain hobbles
  3. chain latch
  4. chain latches
  5. chain letter
  6. chain letters
  7. chain lightning
  8. chain locker
  9. chain lockers
  10. chain mail
  11. chain mails

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