noun
- conversation about one’s work or business, especially technical details that may be boring or incomprehensible to outsiders
Usage: informal
Examples
- The doctors kept talking shoptalk at dinner, discussing medical procedures.
- Let’s avoid shoptalk at the party and just have fun.
- The engineers’ shoptalk about software bugs went over my head.
- She tried to steer the conversation away from shoptalk.
- The meeting turned into casual shoptalk about industry trends.
- His constant shoptalk made him boring at social gatherings.