Crossword clues for latchkey
latchkey
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Equipped with a key; generally in the phrase ''latchkey child''. alt. 1 A key, especially to an outside door. 2 A child who is given a key to the home and is expected to remain at home alone (without adult supervision until the parents return from work). n. 1 A key, especially to an outside door. 2 A child who is given a key to the home and is expected to remain at home alone (without adult supervision until the parents return from work).
WordNet
n. key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door
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 series of 38 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1966 and 1967 at the Nevada Test Site
- The Latch-Key Child, the first album by the child rapper 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.