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    CHEW THE FAT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Talk socially without exchanging too much informationplay

    Example:

    the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

    Synonyms:

    chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit

    Classified under:

    Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

    Hypernyms (to "chew the fat" is one way to...):

    converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chew the fat"):

    jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)

    Sentence frame:

    Somebody ----s

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