to jawbone
- verb
- /ˈdʒɔːboʊn/
- Informal
:
charlar
- The friends would often jawbone during their coffee breaks at work.
Examples
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Whenever we get together, we love to jawbone about the latest news in our neighborhood.
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They'll jawbone this to death.
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After dinner, we sat around the fire to jawbone about our childhood memories.
Synonyms
269
1.0
To talk in a friendly, informal way about small everyday things
40
1.6
To talk in a friendly, casual way about a subject
29
3.3
To talk with someone in a friendly way
9
8.6
To talk in a friendly way to make people like you and get an advantage
9
6.8
To chat in a relaxed informal way about unimportant things
8
6.5
To talk quickly and excitedly in a way that is hard to understand
6
7.7
To talk for a long time in a relaxed, often boring way
5
4.1
To talk in a friendly, light way about unimportant things
4
8.1
To talk a lot about unimportant things
3
7.9
Talk in a friendly, relaxed way for a long time
To talk in a relaxed, friendly way
To talk in a relaxed way about nothing important
To talk briefly in an informal way
To talk for a long time in a casual or boring way
To talk in a friendly way to make a useful connection
Talk in a friendly way to try to get help or make useful contacts
To talk in a friendly, casual way to make contacts
To chat with others about small, unimportant things
Talk in a friendly way about small, unimportant things
To call someone and talk informally by phone
To talk in a lively, informal way about things like music
Antonyms
Compounds
How Casual
- Informal
184
1.1
- Informal
- Informal
269
1.0
∞
1.0
29
3.3
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jawbone (to chat) comes from the image of the moving jaw when people talk, so to jawbone is to talk casually and friendly with someone.