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chat

 
 
/tʃæt/ verb [I] (present participle chatting, past tense and past participle chatted)

Definition

to talk with someone in a friendly and informal way: I wanted to chat to you about the party on Saturday.
(Definition of chat verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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