chatting

Verb

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
   • She chatted with her friend in the cafe.

   Synonyms:

   confab, discourse, parley, common, confabulate, conversate, converse, convo, jaw, treat

2. To talk a while in a friendly manner.
   • 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.

   Synonyms:

   bespeak, moot, talk about, bechat, confer, betalk, discuss, talk over, treat

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?

See all 17 meanings of chat