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shoot the shit

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shoot the shit

slang To chat or converse aimlessly or casually, without any serious topic of conversation. Customers always want to shoot the shit with me in the store before they buy something. I just shot the shit with John for a while when he passed me on the street.
See also: shit, shoot
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shoot the shit

verb
See shoot the bull
See also: shit, shoot
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

shoot the shit

Vulgar Slang
To talk idly.
See also: shit, shoot
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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