Verb (American).—1. To talk; to chatter.
1883. Bread-winners (1884), 161. You haven’t done a thing but ...
eat pea nuts and hear Bott chin. [m.]
1887. New York World. They chin about the best methods of relieving
poverty. [m.]
18(?). Francis, Saddle and Moccasin. He was a worker, and liked nothing
better than to get into a circle of young cow-punchers, and chin and
josh with them.