chat

verb

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 a while in a friendly manner.

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

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

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

   Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.

5. 5

   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?

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

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

   Internet Relay Chat

3. 3

   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 […]

4. 4

   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.

   The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

   "Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"

   Chat, is this prime minister serious?

5. 5

   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."

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

interjection

1. 1

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

   Chat, is this real?

noun

1. 1

   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

noun

1. 1

   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.

noun

1. 1

   slangA 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.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of chaatAlternative form of chaat.

Forms

plural

chats

past tense

chatted

past participle

chatted

present participle

chatting

third person singular

chats