TALK SHOP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Discuss matters that are related to work

Example:

As soon as they met, the linguists started to talk shop

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "talk shop" is one way to...):

discourse; discuss; talk about (to consider or examine in speech or writing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence examples:

Sam and Sue talk shop

Sam wants to talk shop with Sue