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gchat

gchat is the alternative letter-case form of Gchat.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Gchat

Gchat

  1. (colloquial) A 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...
    • 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...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
    Synonyms:
    Gtalk, Gmessage

Noun (1) capitalized: Gchat

Gchat (plural Gchats)

  1. (colloquial) A message or chat on Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat.
    • 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

Verb (1) capitalized: Gchat

Gchat (third-person singular simple present Gchats, present participle Gchatting, simple past and past participle Gchatted)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To talk (to someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat; to send (someone) a message on any of these services.
    • 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
    • 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...
  2. (colloquial, ditransitive) To 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...
    • 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

Proper noun (2) capitalized: GChat

GChat

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
    • 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...
    • 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

Noun (2) capitalized: GChat

GChat (plural GChats)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
    • 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...
    • 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...

Verb (2) capitalized: GChat

GChat (third-person singular simple present GChats, present participle GChatting, simple past and past participle GChatted)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
    • 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...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

Synonyms of gchat

Forms of gchat

Noun
pluralgchats
pluralGchats
pluralGChats
Verb
third-person singular presentgchats
present participlegchatting
past participlegchatted
pastgchatted
third-person singular presentGchats
present participleGchatting
past participleGchatted
pastGchatted
third-person singular presentGChats
present participleGChatting
past participleGChatted
pastGChatted
Proper noun
alternative formGChat
alternative formgchat

Origin of gchat

From the first letter of Google + chat, after Gmail and Google Talk.

Questions about gchat

What does gchat mean?
Gchat means a communication service developed by Google: Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or their replacement Google Chat.
What is gchat the alternative letter-case form of?
Gchat is the alternative letter-case form of Gchat.
What part of speech is gchat?
Gchat can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.

Words near gchat in the dictionary

  1. GCE
  2. GCEs
  3. GCF
  4. GCFs
  5. GCH
  6. gchat
  7. gchats
  8. gchatted
  9. gchatting
  10. GCHQ
  11. GCI

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gchat (page history and authors); Gchat (page history and authors); GChat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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