Definition of "chat"

chat¹

/t͡ʃæt/

verb
third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted
1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
2. To talk more than a few words.
3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
  Quotations
  We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
  2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43
4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural chats
1. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
  Quotations
  Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
  1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎
  1. A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
2. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
3. (Internet) A chat room.
  Quotations
  While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
  1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online, page 256
4. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
5. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
6. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
7. A group of goblins.

chat²

/t͡ʃæt/

noun
1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

chat³

/t͡ʃæt/

noun
plural chats
1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
  Quotations
  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.
  2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 441

chat⁴

/t͡ʃæt/

noun
plural chats
1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
  Quotations
  '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.'
  1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520
  May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
  2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, page 18
  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.
  2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, page 149

chat⁵

/t͡ʃæt/

noun
plural chats
1. Alternative form of chaat

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