chatroom

British

/ ˈtʃætˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

a site on the internet, or another computer network, where users have group discussions by electronic mail, typically about one subject

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A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques and shooting black people in the head in neo-Nazi online chatrooms has been sentenced to a 12-month community order.

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Plumb was snared by an undercover police officer from the US who infiltrated an online chatroom called Abduct Lovers.

From BBC

All the men he recruited on chatrooms "were told she would be drugged", Pelicot said, adding he had explicitly told Dogan he was looking for "someone to abuse my sleeping wife without her knowledge".

From BBC

In June, police announced they were investigating the leak of answers to a nationwide English exam via an online chatroom.

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On a chatroom called "without her knowledge" he recruited men of all ages to come and abuse his wife.

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