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Meanings of schmooze in English

Portuguese
bate-papo
Catalan
xerrada
Spanish
confabulación

An informal conversation.

bate-papo

Talk idly or casually and in a friendly way.

Synonyms
Examples for "jawbone"
Examples for "jawbone"
1
Susannah leaned forward and touched the jawbone Roland held in his hands.
The waste lands
2
She nodded at the case, where the jawbone was supposed to be.
The nightmarys
3
There is Samson belaboring the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
4
A woman played the other jawbone, which was from a younger animal.
The Mammoth Hunters
5
A scar along his jawbone wouldn't be pretty, but it wasn't disastrous.
Complete Books of Blood
1
We needed someone who could shmooze in the mother tongue.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
2
I shmooze well with the rich and famous.
Happiness key
3
If he refused social engagements because no one he needed to shmooze was on the guest list, she went into action.
Fortunate harbor
4
My Curtis is a pint-sized zealot who'd probably rather cut off his right arm than drink, swear, smoke, or shmooze with nudies.
Norway to hide: a passport to peril mystery
5
In his naïveté, Mick believed friendship with Tsedraiter Ike was still possible if only Tsedraiter Ike would sit down and shmooze with him.
Kalooki Nights
Usage of schmooze in English
1
Law school had taught her to schmooze through stress, if nothing else.
Heart of stone
2
Kept to himself, didn't schmooze in the lunchroom, didn't attend social events.
Bones Never Lie
3
They're afraid we won't come, or if we do, we won't schmooze.
Stiltsville: a novel
4
Maybe picture taking was a ploy used to schmooze the locals.
Bones of the Lost
5
He is not about lunch, idle schmooze, or hugging it out.
The new yorker
6
This kind of thing has brought him to another city and another industry schmooze.
The Irish Times
7
You are expected to go to certain parties and schmooze.
The Guardian
8
This is not a place to just booze and schmooze.
Ebony
9
I mustn't come out there as everyone's mate and schmooze.
Reuters
10
Thanks. Now let Eli find her and try to schmooze her with his numerous excuses.
My deadly valentine
11
This banal jock, Stradlater, tends to schmooze his dates into full submission: He was unscrupulous.
The Guardian
12
But it will take a tsunami of schmooze to wash away the cynicism of non-believers.
The Guardian
13
Maybe he'd like to schmooze a little with the next best-selling author at Hightower Books.
Pasta Imperfect
14
Handles the books, tracks inventory, travels to Israel and the States to evaluate product, schmooze suppliers.
Cross Bones
15
Places to visit, European prime ministers to schmooze.
The Irish Times
16
You can't schmooze your way up a mountain.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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Translations for schmooze
Catalan
xerrada
Schmooze through the time