leave the chat

Verb

leave the chat (third-person singular simple present leaves the chat, present participle leaving the chat, simple past and past participle left the chat)

1. (Internet) To abruptly disappear or become irrelevant.
   • Coordinate term: enter the chat
   • Your argument makes no sense—looks like logic has left the chat today.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave, the, chat.
   • When he presented us his work in an online conference chat (he lives in another state), Jen privately told me that she didn't like it, but that I could handle the project by myself. Then she left the chat without saying one word to Nate.2011 August 23, Lucinda Rosenfeld, anonymous quotee, “My Friend Blabbed About the Ring My Boyfriend Bought Me”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...