chat

Meanings

Verb

• To be engaged in informal conversation.
• To talk more than a few words.
• To talk of; to discuss.
• To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

Noun

• Informal conversation.
• An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
• A chat room.
• The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
• Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini (tribe) or subfamily Saxicolinae (subfamily) that feed on insects.
• Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• A louse .
• Alternative of chaat

Origin

• Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.
• Compare chit, and chad.
• Origin unknown.
• From thieves' cant.