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Back-formation used slangily to mean "talk with"
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conversate
Word definitions for conversate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1994, apparently a back-formation from conversation or an elaboration of converse . According to some, from U.S. black English.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context African American Vernacular English English) To converse, to have conversation.
Usage examples of conversate.
If you start trying to conversate with him, he gets confused and don't listen.
Named after Alan Turing, a pioneer theoretician of machine intelligence, who said that a computer being able to conversate with a human for a certain time would be intelligent.