telephone dating service; sex chat line
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.
テレクラにハマって高額な電話代を払ってしまった。
I got hooked on a chat line and ended up paying a huge phone bill.
He's dating a woman he met through a telephone dating service.
When I was bored, I once tried calling a telephone dating line.