A conversation that takes place, usually in text, over the World Wide Web.
Some webchats that deliver a real-time feeling require […] plug-ins, which are mini-software programs that you need to download from the Web onto your computer so your Web browser can launch into chat[…]1998, Aliza Sherman, Cybergrrl!: a woman's guide to the World Wide Web:
Avon and Somerset Constabulary Interactive webchat (9 February 2007)2007, Malcolm Coulthard, Alison Johnson, An Introduction to Forensic Linguistics: Language in Evidence, page 216:
webchat
verb
Etymology From web + chat.
1
To take part in such a conversation.
This was the case with Antonio Rodolfo Junior, Braskem's PVC Products and Services Manager, who spent nearly an hour every evening webchatting with his wife and two children, aged 4 and 6, back in Sao Paulo.2005, Odebrecht Informa, numbers 116-121, page 39: