as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the kind of work environment in which staffers can knock off early on Friday and chin with the boss
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Recent Examples of chin
This sort of confidence, this sort of chest out, chin up.
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Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2024
Set alerts to remind yourself to stand up straight: shoulders back, chin up, core braced.
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Hilary Tetenbaum,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Apr. 2024
Zaoui is stout and broad chinned, with thick eyebrows and a sweep of dark hair.
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Longreads,
5 Mar. 2024
Álvarez is compact and chiseled, and carries himself, chin up, like a boxer entering the ring.
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Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2023
See All Example Sentences for chin
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2024
Set alerts to remind yourself to stand up straight: shoulders back, chin up, core braced.
—
Hilary Tetenbaum,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Apr. 2024
Zaoui is stout and broad chinned, with thick eyebrows and a sweep of dark hair.
—
Longreads,
5 Mar. 2024
Álvarez is compact and chiseled, and carries himself, chin up, like a boxer entering the ring.
—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
5 May 2023
See All Example Sentences for chin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chin
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These hard-sided, pop-top adventure trucks look so cool that strangers will stop to chat with you — guaranteed.
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While Yahia chats with The Star, his daughter, Hannah, takes a tray of baklava out of the oven.
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In a rare show of emotion, the 6-2 Knicks star got up off the ground and jawed at Victor Wembanyama, clearly irate with the San Antonio Spurs’ 7-4 center.
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After the game that featured five technical fouls and thee ejections, players from both teams jawed back and forth near midcourt.
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This is because any of various chatbots can induce in us an irresistible sense of our conversing with an actual person.
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Her subjects range from the humming of trees conversing through underground fungi to the iridescent call (invisible to humans) that flowers make to fluttering bees.
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Robert, talk me through the thinking behind this framing.
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Seconds later, Hines-Allen decided she was done talking and shoved Bonner.
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“Chin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chin. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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