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chatline
/ ˈtʃætˌlaɪn /
noun
- a telephone service enabling callers to join in general conversation with each other
Example Sentences
“Finally – liberated!” reads one post on the hunt’s chatline on the Discord forum.
“We confirm that the replica of the golden owl was dug up last night, and that simultaneously a solution has been sent on the online verification system,” reads a post published on Thursday morning on the hunt’s official chatline.
Somewhere in France or one of its overseas territories, someone is reporting a sexual assault, sexist harassment or discrimination to a 24-hour chatline.
The chatline officers do not know who they are communicating with; in most cases they will never know.
The chatline went live last November shortly after the equality minister Marlène Schiappa, a feminist writer, oversaw new legislation introducing, among other measures, on-the-spot fines for “insulting, degrading or humiliating comments” in the street or on public transport.
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