bantsnoun [ U or plural ]
uk/bænts//bænts/UK informalconversation or behaviour that is funny and not serious. Bants is short for banter noun :
Chill out. It's just bants!
The bants were good!
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- jaw
- make yourself understood idiom
- natter
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoot the breeze idiom
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- talk some sense into sb idiom
- understand
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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