chat

Meanings

Plural: chats

Noun

• an informal conversation
• birds having a chattering call
• songbirds having a chattering call
• Informal conversation.
• An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
• 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.
• 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."
• A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
• Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
• Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• Alternative form of chaat.

Verb

• talk socially without exchanging too much information
• To be engaged in informal conversation.
• To talk more than a few words.
• To talk of; to discuss.
• To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
• 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).

Synonyms

chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, confabulation, gossip, jaw, natter, New World chat, Old World chat, schmoose, schmooze, shoot the breeze, visit