What does 'chat' mean? dublin slang?

masti123

I always hear people say thats a 'chat' or when they post a picture on facebook of their shoes they say 'new chats'
Just wondering does anyone know what it means? thanks

CianRyan

Not universally a Dublin term, never heard of it in all my years here.

hfallada

I think its used instead of chap. I know people that use it in the shoes context. Most Dublin Slang doesnt have a proper English word equivalent.

I think chats would effectively be the same as someone say they have new threads, i.e. that they have new clothes? Or else "chat" is a catch-all term for anything. I could be wrong. I've heard it used before a few years back, but don't know from who. Don't think it's a Dublin term as such.

Cushie Butterfield

According to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chat it originated in Sydney: There is a suburb named Chatswood in Sydney, the word was first used by a small group of individuals from the North Shore who had a disliking for a group of individuals from Chatswood. So if you were trying to offend your Shorey mate, you would call him Chat, or if you saw something sh1t, ugly etc, you would call it chat.*Friend tells lame joke*
"That was chat"


1.anything you don't know the name for
2.anything disgusting
3.simile for sh1t, crap, turd, and other related words...

It's also claimed :
Ecstacy tablets, particularly in rural Ireland.
"I did five chats last night and I came up like a sky boy"

enfield

In the 1950's in Finglas, chat meant Vagina

stoneill

Chats were always tits - Look at the chats on her! That's Dublin slang.
This new FB meaning of chat? dunno.

Lovely Bloke

stoneill wrote: »

Chats were always tits - Look at the chats on her! That's Dublin slang.
This new FB meaning of chat? dunno.

that's "Jats" not "Chats".

Chats means clothes.

"Check out me new chats"

I'm mid-30s by the way, and would have used those words in my teens in Coolock/Artane

neilthefunkeone

Mate of mine uses the term 'Chat' as to go and take a crap!

miamee

I grew up in Dublin 15 and I have never heard this term before ever!

I'm in my mid-thirties as well. Must have had a sheltered life

GLaDOS

This thread makes me feel old and out of touch and simultaneously young and ignorant

stoneill

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

that's "Jats" not "Chats".

Chats means clothes.

"Check out me new chats"

I'm mid-30s by the way, and would have used those words in my teens in Coolock/Artane

Jats was only because you youngwans weren't saying it properly.

moxin

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

that's "Jats" not "Chats".

Chats means clothes.

"Check out me new chats"

I'm mid-30s by the way, and would have used those words in my teens in Coolock/Artane

Trying in my head to locate nearest areas to those as i don't know anyone from Coolock\Artane, the term has not been used by people i know from nearby Santry and Donaghmede or heard of by myself(D11).

It could be a recent D4 import for the youngwans and youngfella's

Malarkey121

chat means drugs...
...any chat around man? Do you want to go in halves for a bit of chat?

DellyBelly

Chats mean shoes I believe in Dublin.

Sir Gallagher

I've never heard chats used for anything other than tits.

CianRyan

Would only mean to have a chat in my eyes, usually over cans.

WildRosie

Born in Dublin and lived here nearly 30 years and I've only heard chats to mean just that, chat e.g. We must meet up next week and have the chats.

Sacksian

From Dublin, northside. Born 1970s.

"Chats" was an informal term for "breasts".

Still is, for some people.

masti123

In Finglas i heard some lad say 'thats a chat' as in thats good, whopper, class etc

chrisguy116

masti123 wrote: »

In Finglas i heard some lad say 'thats a chat' as in thats good, whopper, class etc

I'm out of secondary school around 4 years now (Finglas) and "chat" was just one of those words that could be applied in any situation .. Usually something deadly, good , leeeethal..

E.g look at these little chats (runners)
Never used it much meself!