enter the chat

English

Etymology

From a typical message displayed when a user joins a chat room.

Verb

enter the chat (third-person singular simple present enters the chat, present participle entering the chat, simple past and past participle entered the chat)

1. (Internet slang) To abruptly appear.

   Coordinate term: leave the chat

   • 2022 February 14, Tressie McMillan Cottom, “We Weren’t Wrong to Love ’The Cosby Show’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-02-23:

     About a year before the pandemic entered the chat, I got an invitation to participate in a documentary. The email from the director, W. Kamau Bell, started along the lines of, "I totally understand if you do not want to do this." I was intrigued.

   • 2022 August 23, Doyin Richards, “Our Exciting Plans Are Going to Crush Our Son”, in Slate‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-07:

     Before Covid entered the chat, there were many situations where parents sent their sick children to school and to daycare because they wouldn't get paid if they didn't show up to work.

   • 2023 June 28, @chichi_naomi, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 26 March 2024:

     baby i need housing to enter the chat and QUICKLY

   • 2023 July 24, Allison Johnson, “Flip phones are having a moment — and all eyes are on Samsung now”, in The Verge‎^[4], archived from the original on 2024-02-02:

     OnePlus will likely enter the chat later this year and could bring some much-needed competition on price — the foldables sold in the US right now start at around $1,700.

   • 2023 September 23, @mayadeppweber7790, “Think shes gonna like it? 😃”, in YouTube‎^[5]:

     My toxic ass thought she made a shake for the rude customer so i was waiting for poison to enter the chat

2. (Internet slang, humorous) Used to draw attention to the existence or presence of something.

   - Black people have no power in America.
   - Barack Obama has entered the chat.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see enter,‎ the,‎ chat.
   • 2012 January 12, Eliot Van Buskirk, “Facebook Unveils Real-Time Social Listening”, in Wired‎^[6], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

     Naturally, you'll be able to chat in real-time with that friend, presumably about the song or the band in question. Friends and "friends of friends" can join up via their activity feeds, and they too enter the chat.