Synonyms for shoot the breeze
Most common
All synonyms
Verb
1. Chew the fat
chew the fat informal, chat, visit, jaw, gossip, shoot the bull, palaver, chatter, chit-chat, natter, confab, claver UK, chaffer, confabulate, waffle, prattle, prate, shoot the shit vulgar slang, chat shit vulgar slang UK IE
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To chat idly or generally waste time talking.
We were just standing around shooting the breeze.
Example sentences
- visit The purpose of our trip is to visit a new factory.
- chat Ziri and Rima continued to chat about their lives.
- jaw I was laughing so hard I nearly dislocated my jaw.
By length
- 3 letters
- jaw1
- 4 letters
- chat1
- 5 letters
- visit2, prate
- 6 letters
- gossip2, waffle2, natter2, confab, claver
- 7 letters
- chatter2, palaver, prattle2, chaffer
- 11 letters
- confabulate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (visit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tailler une bavette
- Deutsch
- klönen