ICQ

noun

1. an instant messaging computer program that enables internet users to locate and communicate with one another online

Word History and Origins

Origin of ICQ¹

approximate abbreviation of I seek you

Example Sentences

Poring over platforms used to sell stolen checks including Telegram, ICQ and WhatsApp, the team of 15 — a professor working with graduate and undergraduate students — first spotted the crime in Florida, California, Texas and New York.

From Washington Post

Vendors of illegal commodities have also formed dedicated group-chats and channels on encrypted instant messaging services like WhatsApp, Telegram and ICQ.

From Salon

From his inactive ICQ numbers, a messenger service once popular in Russian-language hacking circles, it appears that eggPLC was running a full-fledged business through the dark web.

From The Verge

It was a couple of years after that that I got the internet at home, and we had it once a week and would dial into the internet and I would talk to my friends in ICQ and send an email or two.

From Slate

Before AOL Instant Messenger there was its more rudimentary ancestor ICQ, which debuted in 1996 and was acquired by AOL two years later, but AIM was the first chat program that seemed to rewire the way an entire generation communicated.

From Slate