Chatgap

What is Chatgap?


1.

The lag between replies in an IM-style conversation: one person types a new statement BEFORE the other person types his/her reply to a previous statement, thus making it unclear in a humorous, surprising or even tragic way.

Eli: I just got accepted to go on the space shuttle.

Nina: Oh wow!

Eli: Oh, and one other thing.

Nina: You must be so excited!

Eli: I think my condom broke last night.

Nina: That's SO AMAZING!

Eli: Uh, chatgap?

Nina: Oh, snap! Chatgap!

Eli: BRB

See pregnant pause, awkward, awk, awkward silence, dot dot dot


62

Random Words:

1. Elon University is not so much a small college as it is a 24/7 bar. If you go there, you will drink. Heavily. Every day. Man it's..
1. A heartless cretin making minimum wage whose job involves calling prospective clients to sell them goods or services they don't wan..
1. see entry for hive mind I would never work for that company, it is one big hive mind complex, they're like pod people..