Gchat

GChat gchat English Alternative forms en GChat gchat Etymology From the first letter of en Google + en chat, after en Gmail and en w:Google Talk. Proper noun en colloquial A communication service developed by Google: Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or their replacement Google Chat. en Gtalk<q:Google Talk> Gmessage 17 March 2014 Salvador Rodriguez Google Hangouts, Drive go down for some users, Twitter panic follows https://web.archive.org/web/20140607105644/http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/17/business/la-fi-tn-google-hangouts-drive-down-twitter-panic-20140317 Hangouts, which is commonly referred to by many as “Gchat,” has been having problems since at least 9:22 a.m., according to Google. on https://web.archive.org/web/20220702145243/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/gchat-we-hardly-knew-ye/531612/ Colleen Rothman RIP Gchat 26 June 2017 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. en w:Keith Gessen A Terrible Country: A Novel New York, N.Y. Viking 2018 62–63 https://archive.org/details/terriblecountryn0000gess/page/62/mode/1up 978-0-735-22131-4 "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." Related terms en Google Chat Noun en colloquial A message or chat on Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat. 14 January 2017 Deb Amlen w:Joel Fagliano Grammar Lesson https://web.archive.org/web/20170114232539/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/crosswords/grammar-lesson-gilded-age-cheyenne-knoxville.html Recently, I got a Gchat from Brendan Emmett Quigley, who wanted to run a clue for the answer FAKE NEWS by me — “Indefinite article?”. 17 April 2018 Madison Malone Kircher My Exes, My Echo, and Me https://web.archive.org/web/20181107104200/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/smarthome/my-exes-alexa-and-me-echo-dot.html 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.” 8 August 2019 Jocelyn Silver w:Casey McQuiston How ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Became the Unlikely Book of the Summer https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-white-royal-blue-book-summer-beach-read-11565285001 I was getting Gchats from colleagues throughout the day who couldn't manage to put the book down to do their work. Verb en colloquial en ambitransitive To talk (to someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat; to send (someone) a message on any of these services. 4 August 2008 Arianne Cohen The Aspiring Cool Best Friend With Benefits https://web.archive.org/web/20181116031234/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2008/08/the_aspiring_cool_best_friend.html 2:55 p.m.: Pseudo Gchats me. Looks like he might be interested in hanging out tonight after all. 10 January 2014 Betsy Farber Love across the International Date Line https://web.archive.org/web/20250714052609/https://www.latimes.com/style/laaffairs/la-hm-0111-la-affairs-20140111-story.html We Skype, Viber and Gchat every day. 19 June 2015 Laura Bennett What I Read (Even When I’m Not Trying to Impress You) https://web.archive.org/web/20190414151857/https://slate.com/culture/2015/06/how-to-read-the-internet-every-day-slate-editor-laura-bennett-on-the-sites-that-converted-her-into-a-loyal-reader.html 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. 3 November 2017 w:JoAnna Novak AIM was more than a chat app. It taught girls to be comfortable with their sexuality. https://web.archive.org/web/20171103131208/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/11/03/aim-was-more-than-a-chat-app-it-taught-girls-to-be-comfortable-with-their-sexuality/ A few months ago, a friend from graduate school asked if I wanted to Gchat (which has since folded into Google Hangouts). en w:Keith Gessen A Terrible Country: A Novel New York, N.Y. Viking 2018 253 https://archive.org/details/terriblecountryn0000gess/page/253/mode/1up 978-0-735-22131-4 A few days later, Dima Gchatted me to say that he had lost the final hearing on his case; en ditransitive To send (something) to (someone) via Google Talk, Google Hangouts, or Google Chat. 12 September 2014 Hannah Jane Parkinson The ultimate glossary of all things internet: from 4chan to Zynga https://web.archive.org/web/20140912003937/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/12/glossary-internet-4chan-lolcats-buzzfeed-zynga If someone tweets or Gchats you a term you don’t understand, you can just fire up Urban Dictionary to find the definition. 24 February 2017 w:Aparna Nancherla To Tweet Is Human, to Delete Divine https://web.archive.org/web/20170225020925/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/sunday/to-tweet-is-human-to-delete-divine.html 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.” en 21 March 2017 Joi-Marie McKenzie 3 The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me New York, N.Y. Center Street 20 https://archive.org/details/engagementgamewh0000mcke/page/20/mode/1up 978-1-4555-9448-1 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. en 16 February 2021 Tracy Clark-Flory Cautionary Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire New York, N.Y. w:Penguin Books 97 https://books.google.com/books?id=xgPyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 9780143134619 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.” en Google Nicknames