(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you have a ~ with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
He’s a talkative guy, and I struck up a ~ with him...
I waited for her to finish a telephone ~.
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2.
If you say that people are in ~, you mean that they are talking together.
When I arrived I found her in ~ with Mrs Williams.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
3.
If you make ~, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
He had been trying to make ~.
PHRASE: V inflects