chat
/ˈt͡ʃæt/ verb A2- To be engaged in informal conversation. · She chatted with her friend in the cafe.· I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
- To talk a while in a friendly manner. · I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
- To talk of; to discuss. · They chatted politics for a while.
- To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie). · Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
- 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?
He/she/it chats · Past chatted · Past participle chatted · -ing form chatting
Verb forms
- Base form
- chat
- He/she/it
- chats
- Past
- chatted
- Past participle
- chatted
- -ing form
- chatting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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3, and while warming his feet and chatting about the last races at Chantilly, he waited until they announced his room to be ready.
Andrea; we can chat better in-doors, and there is no coachman to overhear our conversation.”
Madame Danglars was chatting at a short distance with Debray, Beauchamp, and Château-Renaud.
He first advanced towards the baroness, who was chatting with Madame de Villefort, who had come alone, Valentine being still an invalid; and without turning aside, so clear was the road left for him, he passed from the baroness to Eugénie, whom he complimented in such rapid and measured terms, that the proud artist was quite struck.
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