Definition of "small talk" [small talk]

• Casual or trivial conversation. (noun)

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• "I'd make small talk for a few minutes, ask about Doris C., the woman he had married four years earlier, and then I'd tell him the situation with Jason."
• "Spock appreciated that Warde did not bother to engage in small talk in the meantime."
• "In the interim, Id had time to make small talk with one of the Englishmans friends, who lived half the year in Miami, it turned out."