leave the chat

English

Etymology

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

Verb

leave the chat (third-person singular simple present leaves the chat, present participle leaving the chat, simple past and past participle left the chat)

1. (Internet slang) To abruptly disappear or become irrelevant.

   Coordinate term: enter the chat

   Your argument makes no sense—looks like logic has left the chat today.

   • 2020 September 9, @serialsleeperwp, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 March 2024:

     that mini heart attack when you're rocking your chair back and forth and balance decides to leave the chat

   • 2021 April 1, “Float like an idiot, sting like a Kia”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/IdiotsInCars, archived from the original on 26 March 2024:

     I like how the Kia casually reverses and leaves the chat.

   • 2022 June 28, u/Quicksilver1964, “I think my wife cheated on me, but I have no proof.”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/BestofRedditorUpdates, archived from the original on 26 March 2024:

     Ethics in Brazil seems to have left the chat this week.

   • 2024 March 25, @jennyleeshee, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on 26 March 2024:

     This dangerously dumb ding dong will march around her village wearing a shirt calling for the murder of the PM and in the same breath call him a tyrant and still somehow not end up imprisoned by said tyrant. ¶ I'd ask you to make it make sense but sense left the chat long ago.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leave,‎ the,‎ chat.
   • 2011 August 23, Lucinda Rosenfeld, anonymous quotee, “My Friend Blabbed About the Ring My Boyfriend Bought Me”, in Slate‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-27:

     When he presented us his work in an online conference chat (he lives in another state), Jen privately told me that she didn't like it, but that I could handle the project by myself. Then she left the chat without saying one word to Nate.