chatline
/ˈtʃatlʌɪn
/noun
A telephone service which allows conversation among a number of separate callers.In 1989, the company banned telephone chatlines after discovering people were becoming addicted to them....
- Thankfully, when telephone chatlines first emerged, age was against me.
- He moved to Wiltshire a few months later after meeting the mother of the four-year-old girl through a telephone chatline.