Shop Talk (Noun)
Meaning
Talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- We couldn't talk shop at the family dinner table because our relatives would just tune us out.
- During the lunch break, the marketing team slipped into shop talk and spent most of the hour discussing metrics.
- Their boss made sure the project details didn't descend into shop talk, ensuring that non-industry investors could grasp the basics.
- Friends in real estate spent so much time swapping stories that outsiders could easily pick up from just being in earshot, most just dismissively write off all such as being about their weird kind of "shop talk."
- Two travel photographers passed through most dinner party chit chat conversations - rather soon once strangers on common or trendy event theme stopped displaying or became superficial rather descending their inner close nature fell.