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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chit-chat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chit-chat about new cars
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A total shut down of loose chit-chat on the air waves.
▪ And voice your own opinions on afterlife chit-chat by joining in the debate below.
▪ At the turn of a switch, an emotional tirade could become jocular chit-chat.
▪ But enough of all this chit-chat.
▪ Now you may be thinking that these options sound very dramatic and limited in the context of social chit-chat.
▪ She attempts a snarl, lost in the chit-chat.
▪ The nature of social chit-chat, then, and indeed of the bulk of our talk, must be tentative and indirect.
▪ Unproductive meetings, domestic rows and uncomfortable social chit-chat can all be caused by status needs being ignored and camouflaged.
Wiktionary
chit-chat

alt. gossip; mindless banter. n. gossip; mindless banter. vb. To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters.

Wikipedia
Chit-Chat (TV series)

Chit-Chat is an Australian television series which aired 1967 on Melbourne station ATV-0 (now ATV-10 and part of Network Ten). It was a daytime interview programme. It aired at 10:30AM, and aired against a test pattern on ABV-2, Lincoln Land (including Here's Humphrey) on GTV-9, and no programming on HSV-7.

Usage examples of "chit-chat".

After some chit-chat about our electricity generators, we asked Liddle if Draper was as influential as he claimed.

We had talked only on racecourses, I reflected, politely skimming the surface with post-race chit-chat.

Marie was overjoyed at the pleasant surprise of a visit from her benefactress, whose face, lovely as it was, and lit up with the joy of living, gay chit-chat, and sweet-scented blossoms she carried seemed to brighten, as with sunbeams, her darkened life.

While they'd been chit-chatting, the two bears must have come out of the cabin.

So, Helen soon had five children crowded around her kitchen table eating cookies and milk, and Rafe's mother and sister sitting in her living room chit-chatting about trivialities.

We're cruising in the Mustang because a busy donut shop isn't the best place to be chit-chatting about murder.

Rekha Merchant placed iron around her heart, and went through the motions of her daily life, playing with her children, chit-chatting with her husband, acting as his hostess when required, and never, not once, revealed the bleak devastation of her soul.

Chuckster entertained them with theatrical chit-chat and the court circular.

Miss Uhura, check all frequencies for a carrier wave, an engine pat-tern, any sort of transmission besides this De Broglie wave-front-in particular, see if you can overhear any chit-chat between ship and home planet.

Formal chit-chat isn't my style--a little gallantry, a few jocularities to see if she will or she won't, a pinch on the buttocks, and off we go.

The transcribers in VBR were supposed to ignore personal chit-chat and condense only relevant operational intelligence into the pink FLORIDA reports for distribution to Vauxhall Cross.

In Stephen's long-considered opinion the most striking thing about her was the change from a perfectly well-bred woman, little given to personalities or colonial chit-chat, reserved but not at all woundingly so - the remarkable transition to warmth and sympathetic exchange with someone she liked.