latchkey
/ˈlatʃkiː
/noun (plural latchkeys)
A key of an outer door of a house.Keoch declined the offer, wishing to be with his family, but offered to drop the others off at the tavern before going home, and passed Rhyll a latchkey to his house, so they could return when they wished....
- In the early 1920s, I and my elder sister Lettice went to a ball most nights and were not allowed latchkeys.
- What bugs me like a flea pancake - aside from the strange latchkey hanging from her belt loop - is the number of necklaces ringing her nape, one of which is so long that it swings down between her thighs.
- in process of time
- in profile
- in progress
- in proportion
- in propria persona
- in public
- in pup
- input
- input-output
- inputter
- inq.
- in quadruplicate
- in Queer Street
- inquest
- in question
- in quick (or rapid) succession
- inquietude
- inquilab
- inquiline
- in quintuplicate
- inquire
- inquirer
- inquiring
- inquiry
- inquisition