What is shooting the shit?

Akin to 'shooting the breeze'. Passing time doing nothing in particular.

I'm just sitting here, you know, shooting the shit.

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talking without any specific purpose; passing the time with causal conversation

We were just shooting the shit out on the front porch while waiting for Justin to show up.

slang for talking with someone about nothing in particular.

"Come on over and shoot the shit" Nirvana-Aneurysm

To chat, to discuss. Usually pointless and often esoteric subject matter. Meaningless banter.

"What were we doing? Aw, y'know, just shooting the shit over some lunch."

the sit around and randomly talk about nothing.

i'm shooting the shit with my homies

We sat around all night, drinking and shooting the shit.

The art of talking for a lengthy period of time, yet accomplishing nothing.

We spent all of Saturday afternoon shooting the shit about inchworms.

To discuss unimportant, random topics in a laid back, comfortable manner. Usually with good friends and dumb topics. (aka shooting the breeze)

We sat around the campfire shooting the shit.

Talking with others just to pass the time. The topic of conversation may vary, but in general there is no point to be made.

We were just hanging out last night at the bar and shooting the shit.

To converse lightly, with no specific topic or objective in mind.

See also: shooting the breeze

So, Bill and I were shooting the breeze and suddenly we came up with an idea for a new website.