chats

Noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

1. Informal conversation.
   • It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
2. 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."
   1. (Internet, metonymically) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
      • The chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
   2. (Internet, broadly, humorous, nonstandard) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
4. (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

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