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
The relatives had astonishingly settled down, with the unmoved passage of time, and more modern emancipation had so far left latchkeys and bachelor apartments behind it that they began to seem almost old-fogeyish.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.
From The Vanishing Man by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
And he jingled the skeleton bunch that he carried on a chain as honest men carry their latchkeys.
From A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
But young women and latchkeys are common in London, as common as--as dirt.
From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman
