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A pre-2000 term for someone you correspond with through e-mail and electronic messages over the Internet after meeting them through an Internet forum or other online service.
Bob: Hey Alice, I just got a new Key pal online!
Alice: Wow! Where is your time machine?

Marty: This synopsis for the movie "You've Got Mail" has the word "Key pal"
John: Well, it is from 1999.
Key pal by funneydude August 28, 2013
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The key pal is the new age incarnation of a pen pal. Instead of the traditional pen and paper communication key pals will use email to communicate. This usually results in a lot higher volumes of correspondence.
Computer: "You have new mail."
Nosey friend: "Hey Bob, who's Alice?"
Bob: "Don't read my email!"
Nosey Friend: "But who's Alice?"
Bob: "It's just my key pal."
Nosey friend: "haha, you're sad!"
key pal by robertshippey September 27, 2010

keyboard pal 

One with whom friendship is made and maintained mainly through a computer-based form of communication.
Lauren maintained her e-friendship with her keyboard pal Björn well until her 19th year, at which point her travels through Scandinavia brought her to his hometown, where a best-left-forgotten erotic encounter with one of his family's boars left Björn without a home, and Lauren without a keyboard pal.
keyboard pal by Elliott September 4, 2005

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026