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TALK SHOP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discuss matters that are related to work
Example:
As soon as they met, the linguists started to talk shop
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "talk shop" is one way to...):
discourse; discuss; talk about (to consider or examine in speech or writing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence examples:
Sam and Sue talk shop
Sam wants to talk shop with Sue
