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chat¹

  • /ˈt͡ʃæt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der.

Middle English chateren

English chatterclip.

English chat

Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

verb chats · chatting · chatted

  1. To be engaged in informal conversation. She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
  2. To talk a while in a friendly manner. I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
  3. transitive To talk of; to discuss. They chatted politics for a while.
  4. informal, often, slang To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie). Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
  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?

Similar: visit

noun chats

  1. countable, uncountable Informal conversation. It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
  2. countable, uncountable An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation. Internet Relay Chat
  3. Internet, uncountable A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream. "Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."
  4. Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable 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.
  5. Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
  6. countable Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
  7. countable Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

interjection

  1. humorous, informal Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present. Chat, is this real?

chat²

  • /ˈt͡ʃæt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.

noun chats

  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

chat³

  • /ˈt͡ʃæt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Unknown.

noun chats

  1. regional 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.

chat⁴

  • /ˈt͡ʃæt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

From thieves' cant.

noun chats · chatt

  1. Australia, New Zealand, UK, World War I, slang 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.'

chat⁵

  • /ˈt͡ʃæt/ US, UK

Rhymes with -æt

noun chats

  1. alternative Alternative form of chaat.chaat

Chat⁶

Where it comes from

Clipping of ChatGPT.

proper noun

  1. slang ChatGPT. Its redundancy of creative work and in terms of chat how people can use it as a cheat basically, you don't have to do essays for school when you can ask chat to do it for you, which forces teachers to have to take this tool into account, and a kid here has said his honest essay has been flagged as "

CHAT⁷

noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.cultural-historical activity theory

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