chat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To be engaged in informal conversation.

   • She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
   • I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
2. 2

   To talk more than a few words.

   • I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
3. 3

   To talk of

   To talk of; to discuss.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).

      • Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
   2. 5

      To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a…

      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).

      • Do you want to chat online later?
   3. 6

      Informal conversation.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling…

      An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

      • Internet Relay Chat
   5. 8

      A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

      • "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
      • While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
   6. 9

      Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or…

      Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

   7. 10

      Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

   8. 11

      Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.

      • Chat, is this real?
   9. 12

      A small potato, such as is given to swine.

      • Wheat and potatoes were traditionally cash crops, though they also provided tail corn for the poultry and chats for the pigs
   10. 13

       Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

       • 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.
   11. 14

       A louse (small, parasitic insect).

       • '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.
       • 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.
   12. 15

       Alternative form of chaat.

   13. 16

       ChatGPT.

       • I asked chat to pick a draft to post and it said they all suck
       • My relative works for the Canadian government, and half her office uses chat to create all sorts of internal comms. I'm just waiting for the leak lmao
   14. 17

       Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.

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