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chat lag 

A long time delay while chatting, e.g. some hours or days, so its difficult to catch up with the subject.
A:Hey, I have to tell you something!
B doesnt respond.
B, days later: Yeah, tell me!
A: Chat lag! What were we talking about?
chat lag by lodre December 26, 2012

chat lag 

when you're in a chat room and it freezes so it looks like no one's talking, and suddenly you're bombarded with 3213535 messages all at once. this usually happens because your computer is either really slow or just on crack.
This chat lag is really ruining the effect of this internet orgy.
chat lag by that girl April 2, 2004

Chat Lag 

When someone is chatting, and a a server of the chat provider is weak or your's/their internet speed is weaker. Someone says something, often a question, and is answered before the whole questions said. often associated with strong awkwardness
12:10 am Swaggr: Hey babe

12:11 am Babe: Wassup
12:12 am Swaggr: I can't go out, my wife's coming
12:12 am Babe: So you wanna go out
***Chat lag has just happened***
12:13 am Swaggr:
Chat Lag by fukdurbichs November 27, 2014

chat-lag 

staying up too late, chatting with friends, especially in different time zones.

Chat-lagged: Misinterpreting IM messages because of a altered state of mind.

Chat-lag: The act of replying to IM in a delayed fashion as a result of chatting with multiple people at the same time
"I woke today, all chat-lagged. Couldn't function at all!"

"My cool cat buddy in Beijing kept me laughing all night, or morning his time - half way around the world. Now I'm chat-lagged."
chat-lag by Cat Beijing April 24, 2010
Chatlag is the disruption of ones internal clock caused by chatting with someone several time zones away. Unlike its counterpart jetiag} chatlag does not require actual [travel.
I was up all night chatting with this hot babe, Maria who lives in Vegas, now I have terrible chatlag.
Chatlag by PLONKA! May 16, 2009

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
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