vidchat
English
Etymology
From vid + chat.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪdˌt͡ʃæt/
- Rhymes: -æt
Noun
vidchat (plural vidchats)
- A videocall, especially a casual one.
- After school, Payton started a vidchat with the cute boy from his printmaking class.
- 2010, Sigmund Brouwer, Flight of Shadows, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 55:
- At a table near the window, with a view of downtown DC, Pierce had his laptop open and was ready for Wilson to come on the line for vidchat.
- 2019 June 27, Matthew Aguilar, “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Reveals Major Change To Rangers”, in Comic Book, archived from the original on July 8, 2020, retrieved July 8, 2020:
- Towards the end of the issue, we see Billy and Kimberly on a vidchat with their friends Jason, Trini, and Zack.
- 2020 May 25, Michael Stahl, “Help! I think I'm falling in love over Zoom”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on July 1, 2020, retrieved July 8, 2020:
- If you're comfortable with this, I'd rather not go on and on texting...I'd prefer to maybe do a low-stakes pandemic phone call or vidchat. How's that sound?
Verb
vidchat (third-person singular simple present vidchats, present participle vidchatting, simple past and past participle vidchatted)
- To engage in a videocall.
- We vidchatted and shared makeup looks until I got sleepy.
- 2013 April 9, Ska Hammer, “How I Came to Have My Own Panties”, in Crasstalk, archived from the original on March 5, 2018, retrieved July 8, 2020:
- We met online, exchanged pics, exchanged fantasies (mostly mine), exchanged racy pics (mostly hers), chatted, vidchatted. Then maybe vidchatted some more.
- 2015 April 28, Tess Koman, “You Can Video Chat People From Facebook Messenger Now”, in Cosmopolitan, archived from the original on April 12, 2016, retrieved July 8, 2020:
- This is all good news because who doesn't want their high school nemesis vidchatting in the middle of the workday to ask for money for your five-year reunion?
- 2020, Aron Lewes, The Darker Ages, Self-published, →ISBN, Chapter 16:
- So far, we've only texted. I've never talked to him on the phone, and we've certainly never vidchatted.
Synonyms
- vidcall (science fiction)
- videocall
Hyponyms
- facetime (verb)
- skype (verb)