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English
Proper noun
Chats
- (UK, naval slang) Chatham.
1918, Chambers's Journal, volume 95, page 393:I think it is a libel, for I have yet to learn that West Country sailor-men are fonder of their victuals than those from 'Pompey' (Portsmouth), or 'Chats' (Chatham), or than Scotsmen, Irishmen, or Welshmen.
1997, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, page 132:He leaned half his body out of the carriage window as we slowly pulled over the timber baulks of the rebuilt bridges, and shouted 'Up the workers!' until a Petty Officer in the next compartment also leaned out and told him, 'Shit in it, you bloody Bolshie, or I'll have your cap as soon as we get to Chats.'
[…] Once inside the prison-like walls of Chatham barracks we were all marched into the drafting office […]
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Old High German kazza, earlier *katta, from Late Latin catta, feminine of cattus.
Noun
Chats f (diminutive Chatsli)
- (Uri) cat (house cat)
References
German
Noun
Chats m
- plural of Chat