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  • noun Plural form of chat-room.

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Examples

  • But the middle-aged female detective in charge of the investigation, caught up in the intricacies of chat-rooms, user-names, apparent espionage and cybersex, comes to realize that she has to change her own mind-set if she is to understand the behavior of these children and the morality of the internet age.

    'Two Boys' Heralds Debut of a Great Composer Paul Levy 2011

  • Sad as it is, there are those who prey on our children by surfing and harvesting information from within chat-rooms and other online engagements.

    Christopher Burgess: The "Double-Edged Sword" of Location-Based Services 2010

  • In Singapore an increasing number of girls offer sexual intercourse upon Internet chat-rooms.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • (Something you pick up using Yahoo messenger in the chat-rooms).

    Microsoft President on Micro-Hoo: We Can Do It - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • In Singapore an increasing number of girls offer sexual intercourse upon Internet chat-rooms.

    Global Child Prostitution Crisis Surges: Demand Up, Ages Down 2008

  • This year the dragonflies helped the 25-year-old Mr. Sukrit win the coveted " most popular actor " award at entertainment magazine Siam Dara and have flooded Thailand ' s show-business chat-rooms with tributes to his talents.

    Hungry for Drama, Chinese Viewers Send Out for Thai James Hookway 2010

  • I had these ideas after I read about FriendFeed chat-rooms which made me think to the pubsub#replyroom option.

    Adding richness to activity streams | FactoryCity 2008

  • One by one, the chat-rooms powered up and the texting resumed.

    Hole 2010

  • So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, ParanoidLinux is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Cyber stalking involves following a person's movements across the Internet by posting messages (sometimes threatening) on the bulletin boards frequented by the victim, entering the chat-rooms frequented by the victim, constantly bombarding the victim with emails etc. Password Sniffing

    Cyber Crimes 2009

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