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Abbreviation of chatter.

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Infinitive
to chat

Third person singular
chats

Simple past
chatted

Past participle
chatted

Present participle
chatting

to chat (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. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
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Singular
chat

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural chats

chat (countable and uncountable; plural chats)

  1. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
  2. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
  3. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
  4. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the subfamily Saxicolini that feed on insects.
  5. (British, slang) A louse.
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Origin unknown.

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Singular
chat

Plural
chats

chat (plural chats)

  1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:
      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.
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chat

  1. seven. →

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Late Latin cattus.

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chat m. (plural chats)

  1. cat
  2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
  3. tag, tig (children's game)

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[edit] Irish

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  • IPA: [xat̪ˠ]

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chat

  1. Mutated form of cat.

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chat m. inv.

  1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)

chat f. inv.

  1. chat (informal conversation via computer)