Usually means: Child with keys, home alone.
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  1. latchkey kid: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. latchkey kid: Merriam-Webster
  3. latchkey kid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. latchkey kid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. latchkey kid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. latchkey kid: Wiktionary
  7. Latchkey kid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Latchkey kid: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Latchkey kid: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (latchkey kid)

noun:  (informal) A schoolchild who carries keys to their residence because there is usually no parent home when school finishes.

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