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Chat
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- 1 Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present. humorous, informal
"Chat, is this real?"
- 1 ChatGPT. slang
"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 "AI made" by his teacher, it's really tricky"
- 1 Informal conversation. countable, uncountable
"It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat."
- 2 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"
- 3 Mining waste from lead and zinc mines. regional
"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."
- 4 A louse (small, parasitic insect). Australia, British, New-Zealand, World-War-I, slang
"'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.'"
- 5 Alternative form of chaat. alt-of, alternative
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- 6 Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 7 songbirds having a chattering call wordnet
- 8 An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation. countable, uncountable
"Internet Relay Chat"
- 9 birds having a chattering call wordnet
- 10 A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream. Internet, uncountable
""Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me.""
- 11 an informal conversation wordnet
- 12 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. Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable
"The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz."
- 13 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." Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable
- 14 Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects. countable
- 15 Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura. countable
- 1 To be engaged in informal conversation.
"She chatted with her friend in the cafe."
- 2 talk socially without exchanging too much information wordnet
- 3 To talk more than a few words.
"I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while."
- 4 To talk of; to discuss. transitive
"They chatted politics for a while."
- 5 To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie). informal, often, slang
"Don't listen to me, I'm chatting."
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- 6 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?"
Etymology
Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.
Unknown.
From thieves' cant.
Clipping of ChatGPT.
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