latchkey kid

noun

noun

Informal A schoolchild who carries keys to their residence because there is usually no parent home when school finishes.

Forget about the American latchkey kids of my generation.2025 December 11, Colette Davidson, “Letter from Paris: France weighs an end to its four-day school week”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

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