IRC

English

Proper noun

IRC

1. (Internet) Initialism of Internet Relay Chat.
2. (US law) Initialism of Internal Revenue Code.
3. Initialism of International Rescue Committee.

Derived terms

• IRCer

Noun

IRC (plural IRCs or IRC's)

1. (Postal Romanization) Initialism of international reply coupon.

Verb

IRC (third-person singular simple present IRCs, present participle IRCing, simple past and past participle IRCed)

1. (intransitive, Internet, informal) To participate in Internet Relay Chat.
   • 1995, Stuart Harris, The Irc Survival Guide:

     <Xantha> <- irced 2 yrs without aliases […]

   • 2002, James Arnt Aune, Selling the Free Market:

     […] IRCing can confirm the observation that work and play appear to constitute a continuum for the digerati.

   • 2004, Allison Rushby, Friday Night Cocktails:

     […] not that this is strange or anything, I do the same thing myself when I'm IRCing — there're some real weirdos out there roaming the Net […]

Anagrams

• -cir-, -ric, CIR, Cir., ICR, RCI, RIC, Ric, cir.