Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shmoose
1 sense of shmoose
Sense 1
shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone -- (talk idly or casually and in a friendly way)
=> chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit -- (talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze")