CHEW THE FAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chew the fat mean? 

• CHEW THE FAT (verb)
  The verb CHEW THE FAT has 1 sense:

1. talk socially without exchanging too much information

  Familiarity information: CHEW THE FAT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEW THE FAT (verb)

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 "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