chatters

Noun

chatter (usually uncountable, plural chatters)

1. (usually) Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
   • Although hardly coming under my theme, I cannot omit this: "Against a woman's chatter: Taste at night fasting a root of radish, that day the chatter cannot harm thee."1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 257

   Synonyms:

   chattering, chatting, nattering

2. (usually) The sound of talking.
3. (usually) The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.
4. (usually) The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
   • The hare cried and complained of the terrible February cold and the disgusting chatter of the owls[.]1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 117
5. (usually) An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
   • Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.
6. (usually) In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity.
   • The NSA is concerned about increased chatter between known terror groups.

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