schmooze

Related to schmooze: schmoozer

schmooze

To chat or gossip casually with someone, especially for personal gain or self-promotion. Originally from Yiddish. I spent the whole night schmoozing with the various artists and musicians my wife invited to the party. You've got to go to social events and schmooze a bit if you're ever going to get ahead in this industry.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schmoose

verb
See schmooze

schmooze

and shmooze and schmoose
1. in. to chat; to chew the fat. (From Hebrew schmuos via Yiddish.) You were schmoozing when you should have been listening.
2. n. a session of chatting or conversing. Come over, and let’s have a schmooze before you go.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • schmoose
  • shmooze
  • shmoozer
  • schmoozer
  • shickered
  • shikkered
  • shlimazl
  • schlemazel
  • schlemozzle
  • schmaltzy
References in periodicals archive
While Schmooze is the first bacaro in Liverpool, there are a number of popular restaurants already established in London.
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In fact, if you're looking to move up at the office, you should have a mentor and schmooze with other up-and-comers.
In fact, the mission statement of the Economic Development Corporation of Utah speaks volumes about the public/private sector economic development, but totally absent are words like schmooze, party, entertain, junket, glad hand, back slap, or golf.
Of course it's all been a bit tricky post-Warhol, but whether the balance tips in favor of pure schmooze or high purpose, most artists will remember an instance (if not quite a Schwab's moment) when their careers seemed to take off, when an auspicious encounter turned private effort into public presence.
Workers are advised to mingle and "schmooze" with those on the top floor.
But although they make for hot headlines and tasty innuendo, the details of Herman's alleged financial and fund-raising misdeeds distract us from the larger problem: Alexis Herman is the consummate Washington player, the ultimate behind-the-scenes wheeler-dealer, well deserving of her long-standing reputation as "the queen of schmooze" (And Herman is the first to admit this.
In Act 1, the stage is an exterior courtyard where Swanilda (Fransoise Joullie) and Franz (Josu Zabala) wow each other and schmooze with friends in a series of physical games and dance sequences that display some of the tanginess of Jerome Robbins's West Side Story choreography, European folk dances, and disco.
Roger Brown, prosecuting, said Dugdale had been seen by a member of the public coming out of Schmooze Wine Bar on Church Road, Allerton, and "staggering" towards a dark grey Mercedes at about 8.30pm on July 12.
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines the verb schmooze as: "To converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection." Merriam-Webster defines it as "to chat in a friendly and persuasive manner especially so as to gain favor, business, or connections." There are other words and phrases with similar meanings--hobnob, rub elbows, and the like--but none seems to share the slickness of schmooze.
Allerton's popular wine bar and restaurant Schmooze re-opened following a pounds 200,000 refurbishment.
The delegates came to schmooze, network, do business, attend seminars, symposiums, master classes, party and also catch a few of the very strong 70 films.