A slang portmanteau describing a prolonged, marathon session of chatting — whether in person, on the phone, or across messaging apps.
A slang portmanteau describing a prolonged, marathon session of chatting — whether in person, on the phone, or across messaging apps. Modelled on "marathon" and the popular "-athon" suffix used for extended events (talkathon, hackathon), a chatathon is what happens when a conversation meant to last twenty minutes stretches into hours of catching up, gossiping, or debate. The word has natural appeal in an era of DMs and group chats that never really end.
We sat down for a quick coffee and three hours later were still deep in a chatathon about nothing and everything.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang, vulgar) A prolonged period of sexual intercourse.
(slang) A large feast or pigout.
(internet slang, rare) A chat room user.
Chathead is an early internet slang term for a chat room user — someone who habitually frequents online chat rooms. Rare and largely obsolete, it belongs to the late 1990s and early 2000s era of dial-up internet culture, when chat rooms were a primary form of online social interaction. The '-head' suffix implies someone defined by or addicted to that activity (cf. 'metalhead,' 'deadhead'). It has a nostalgic flavour today, evoking the pre-social-media internet.
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(slang, rare) A long period of chatting.
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