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1. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and chatting";
   - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas, gab
    
2. Exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network

1. An informal conversation
   - confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose, chin-wag [Brit], natter
    
2. Birds having a chattering call
   - New World chat
    
3. Songbirds having a chattering call
   - Old World chat

Derived forms: chatted, chats, chatting

Type of: conversation, converse, discourse, New World warbler, thrush, wood warbler

Part of: genus Icteria, genus Saxicola, Icteria, Saxicola

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