chat
noun
- bird
- talk idly
verb
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Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃæt/
intj
Etymology: Etymology tree English chatterder. English chat Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
- Used to introduce a question, to address all the other people present.
“Chat, is this real?”
name
Etymology: Clipping of ChatGPT.
- 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”
noun
- Alternative form of chaat.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English chatterder. English chat Clipping of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
“She chatted with her friend in the cafe.”
“I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.”
- To talk more than a few words.
“I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.”
- 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.”
- To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
“Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.”
- 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?”