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shoot the breeze
Overview of verb shoot-the-breeze
The verb shoot the breeze has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")
Antonyms of verb shoot-the-breeze
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shoot-the-breeze
1 sense of shoot the breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
=> talk, speak
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb shoot-the-breeze
1 sense of shoot the breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shoot-the-breeze
1 sense of shoot the breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
'Cause To' of verb shoot-the-breeze
Derived Forms of verb shoot-the-breeze
Domain of verb shoot-the-breeze
Domain Terms of verb shoot-the-breeze
Familiarity of verb shoot-the-breeze
shoot the breeze used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb shoot-the-breeze
1 sense of shoot the breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb shoot-the-breeze
1 sense of shoot the breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
> converse, discourse
=> argue, contend, debate, fence
=> interview, question
=> interview
=> interview
=> chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb shoot-the-breeze
Sense 1
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
=> converse, discourse
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