WATS

[ wots ]

noun

1. bulk-rate telephone service that enables a subscriber to make an unlimited number of long-distance telephone calls within a given service area for a fixed monthly charge or to receive calls from given areas with no charge to the caller.

Word History and Origins

Origin of WATS¹

W(ide) A(rea) T(elecommunications) S(ervice)

Example Sentences

Michael Pratt tossed a 20-yard touchdown pass to Will Wallace and, after UAB missed a 38-yard field goal attempt, Pratt found Duece Wats with a 13-yard scoring strike.

From Seattle Times

“I gotta do wats best for me and give myself tha chance to b tha best I can be and I wood think dat u wood want tha same for me.”

From New York Times

“This is a life or death situation. He says he wats to vaccinate 100 million Americans within 100 days; Paterson can do our part and we will do our part. Just give us the vaccines and we’ll finish the job.”

From Washington Times

In 1985, when Meskerem opened in Adams Morgan’s “Little Ethiopia,” it stood out: The restaurant served as a culinary embassy, as waitstaff in colorful dresses showed curious first-timers, stymied by the absence of silverware, how to rip off hunks of injera flatbread and scoop spicy wats with their hands.

From Washington Post

We wafted around the gilded wats and the colonial villas of the ancient Laos capital for a couple of days in a fug of love.

From The Guardian