latchkey
noun
latchkeys
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pluralof latchkey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the people inside the house will run the place as we want it run, they may stay inside and we will keep the latchkeys in our pockets.
From The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People by Woodrow Wilson
"Ah, the latchkeys in the dead men's pockets!" he caught me up.
From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
There I was staring distracted into it and scrabbling round in the inside, pulling out handkerchiefs and samples and buttons and latchkeys.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Geraldine Bonner
You and Mrs. will have latchkeys, of course.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
