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n. - Light informal conversation for social occasions v. - Talk socially without exchanging too much information.

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  • More to the point, one wonders whether this sort of chitchat is really authentic enough to justify its dullness.
  • He has things to do before he takes the field against the archrival Dodgers, and idle chitchat is not one of them.
  • She felt obligated to make some kind of chitchat, however desultory.
  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard some chitchat about ...
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