latchkey
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I was a 1980s latchkey kid, and some of my favorite memories involved coming home from school, choosing something to heat up from the freezer and watching family sitcom reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"Dinosaurs were more like latchkey kids," Holtz said.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
The exchange arrived in Season1, Episode 2, as Meghan detailed how she grew up as an average American latchkey kid who ate a lot of fast food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
She mentions: "I was a latchkey kid, so I grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray meals."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025
After-school junk food is another fundamental right of the latchkey child.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they were not on a main road, the door was not kept latched, and so they had no latchkeys.
From A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends by Baldwin, May
There are two latchkeys, of which John used to keep one and I the other.
From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
This was the examination of the lock which the dead brothers' latchkeys had fitted.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
Even young female wraiths, demanding latchkeys, refuse to obey the frowning face of the clock, and engage in light-hearted ebullience to make the ghost of Mrs. Grundy turn a shade paler in horror.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy
