テレクラ
Meanings
1
telephone dating service; sex chat line
abbreviation
Abbreviation of テレホンクラブ. Refers to a paid telephone service for dating or sexual conversation, popular in the 1990s–2000s. Often carries a seedy or adult-entertainment connotation.
See also: テレホンクラブ
Back then, ads for telephone dating services were often in magazines.
I got hooked on a chat line and ended up paying a huge phone bill.
Usage patterns
- テレクラで〈人〉と知り合うto meet someone through a telephone dating service
He's dating a woman he met through a telephone dating service.
- テレクラに電話するto call a telephone dating line
When I was bored, I once tried calling a telephone dating line.