(countable, uncountable) A form of informal conversation, often used to stop an argument or resolve a situation.

An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.

(Internet) A chat room.

(metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) 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 or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.

Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

A small potato, such as is given to swine.

(mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.

(Britain, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).

Alternative form of chaat

To be engaged in informal conversation.

To talk more than a few words.

(transitive) 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.