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chat noun- a vocabulary, style or manner of speech or writing UK
- “Says he’s a nice fellow, likes hurting people, knocks girls about, sticks knives in people. An emotional pauper.” “How much?” “That’s college chat for a right bastard.” — Laurence Henderson, With Intent, 1968
- a talent for glibly persuasive speech; the gift of the gab UK
- — James Barlow, The Burden of Proof, 1968
- a thing, an article, an object UK, 1906
- If a horse is being held by a groom, you can say “Put that chat in the stable”. If you do not want to buy a wagon that a diddy [gypsy] is trying to sell you: “I don’t want the chat”; or if a man is telling you he left a show at Reading, he will say: “I left the chat at Reading”. — Butch Reynolds, Broken Hearted Clown, p. 31, 1953
- the vagina UK, 1937
French chat (cat), thus PUSSY - an old man, usually a vagrant, deadbeat and alcoholic, or otherwise degraded AUSTRALIA, 1950
Especially in prison use. - — Jim McNeil, The Chocolate Frog [and] The Old Familiar Juice, 1973
- The crims had nicknames for most things and they called the filthy ones “chats.” — William Dodson, The Sharp End, p. 23, 2001
- a louse AUSTRALIA, 1812
Prison usage. - — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 108, 1932
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 21, 1977
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