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Front door opener (for children with absent parents?)
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latchkey
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Word definitions for latchkey in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also latch-key , 1825, a key to draw back the latch of a door, from latch (n.) + key (n.1). Latchkey child first recorded 1944, American English, in reference to children who come home from school while both parents are at work.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Latchkey \Latch"key`\, n. A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Latchkey or Latch-key may refer to: A key (lock) used to open a latch Latchkey kid , a child who returns from school to an empty home because his or her parents are away at work The Latchkey , a 1910 film by the Thanhouser Company Operation Latchkey , a ...
Usage examples of latchkey.
This morning they had one prize in mind: the Oboyan road, the artery to Kursk and the latchkey to German victory.
I started up, afraid that the delights of haute cuisine had palled for Hilda, and then I remembered that She would undoubtedly have come armed with a latchkey.
I almost said so, but luckily remembered just in time that Kristy has been a latchkey kid for years.
Most of them came from families who weren't families, latchkey kids grown old before their time.
To hear him tell it the Latchkeys were a tough family who lived in his mother’s neighborhood and threw rocks at passing cars just for fun.
Tremaine had a few men’s handkerchiefs, a penknife and the latchkeys to Coldcourt’s front door and her room at the conscripted hotel in Port Rel.