Pronunciations
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/ˈt͡ʃæt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
Verb
To be engaged in informal conversation.
- Examples
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She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
To talk a while in a friendly manner.
- Examples
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I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
To talk of; to discuss.
Usage- Transitive
- Synonyms
- Examples
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They chatted politics for a while.
We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
Usage- Informal
- often
- Slang
- as chatting
- Examples
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Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- Examples
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Do you want to chat online later?
Noun
Informal conversation.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Internet Relay Chat
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
Usage- Internet
- Uncountable
- with or without "the"
- Examples
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"Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream. The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
Usage- Internet
- Countable
- metonymically
- Uncountable
- with or without "the"
- Examples
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The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
"Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"
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Chat, is this prime minister serious?
A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream. Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
Usage- Internet
- broadly
- Countable
- Humorous
- nonstandard
- Uncountable
- with or without "the"
Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
Usage- Countable
Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Usage- Countable
Interjection
Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.
Usage- Humorous
- Informal
- Synonyms
- Examples
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Chat, is this real?
Noun
A small potato, such as is given to swine.
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Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs
Noun
Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
Usage- Regional
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Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
Noun
A louse (small, parasitic insect).
Usage- Australia
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- World-War-I
- Slang
- Examples
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'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?' 'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
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Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.
Noun
an informal conversation
- Broader terms
birds having a chattering call
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
songbirds having a chattering call
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
Verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
- Synonyms
- Examples
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the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze