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chat

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of CHAT

1
to engage in casual or rambling conversation <the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours>
Synonyms babble, blab, cackle, chaffer [British], chatter, chin [slang], converse, gab, gabble, gas, jabber, jaw, kibitz (also kibbitz), natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, rap, rattle, run on, schmooze (or shmooze), talk, twitter, visit
Related Words gossip, tattle; descant, discuss, expatiate; yak (also yack), yammer, yap
Phrases blow smoke, chew the fat (also chew the rag), shoot the breeze, talk a blue streak
2
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly <lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours>

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