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CLAVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does claver mean?
• CLAVER (verb)
The verb CLAVER has 1 sense:
1. talk socially without exchanging too much information
Familiarity information: CLAVER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk socially without exchanging too much information
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
chaffer; chat; chatter; chew the fat; chit-chat; chitchat; claver; confab; confabulate; gossip; jaw; natter; shoot the breeze; visit
Context example:
the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
Hypernyms (to "claver" is one way to...):
converse; discourse (carry on a conversation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "claver"):
jawbone; schmoose; schmooze; shmoose; shmooze (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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