- chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose - an informal conversation
--1 is a kind of conversation
--1 has particulars:chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie Derived form: verb chat1 - New World chat, chat - birds having a chattering call
--2 is a kind of New World warbler, wood warbler
--2 is a member of Icteria, genus Icteria
--2 has particulars: yellow-breasted chat, Icteria virens - Old World chat, chat - songbirds having a chattering call
--3 is a kind of thrush
--3 is a member of Saxicola, genus Saxicola
--3 has particulars: stonechat, Saxicola torquata; whinchat, Saxicola rubetra
- chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit - talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
--1 is one way to converse, discourse
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun chat1
Sam and Sue chat
Sam wants to chat with Sue