chat

verb

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.

   “She chatted with her friend in the cafe.”

   “I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.”

2. To talk more than a few words.

   “I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.”

3. (transitive)To talk of; to discuss.

   “They chatted politics for a while.”

   “We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.”

4. (informal, often, slang)To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).

   “Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.”

5. 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?”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Informal conversation.

   “It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.”

   “Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.”

2. (countable, uncountable)An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

   “Internet Relay Chat”

3. (Internet, uncountable)A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

   “"Type yes in (the) chat if you can hear me."”

   “While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]”

4. (Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable)A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.

   “The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.”

   “"Chat, should I pick up this sword before heading out?"”

   “Chat, is this prime minister serious?”

5. (Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, nonstandard, uncountable)A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
6. (countable)Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
7. (countable)Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
8. 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”

9. (regional)Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

   “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.”

10. (Australia, British, New-Zealand, World-War-I, slang)A louse (small, parasitic insect).

    “'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.'”

    “May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.”

    “Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.”

11. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of chaat.
12. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of cultural-historical activity theory.

intj

1. (humorous, informal)Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.

   “Chat, is this real?”

name

1. (slang)ChatGPT.

   “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”

   “I asked chat to pick a draft to post and it said they all suck”

   “My relative works for the Canadian government, and half her office uses chat to create all sorts of internal comms. I'm just waiting for the leak lmao”

   “I asked Chat to write a paragraph about graphene oxide in LNPs. This is the response.”

   “i be using chat to make study plans for me 😭”