Surveillance pickup (7 letters)

{ Answer }

CHATTER

{ Related Clues }

Gab
Prate
Yak
Small talk
Talk a blue streak
Teeth do it
A lot of foreign intelligence intercepts

{ Tags }

blue, chatter, do, foreign, gab, intelligence, intercepts, it, lot, pickup, prate, small, streak, surveillance, talk, teeth, yak

{ Notes }

The answer CHATTER is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1600 puzzles.

{ Definition }

CHATTER as a noun:

1. (yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle) = noisy talk

2. (chatter, chattering) = the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

3. (chatter, chattering) = the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

CHATTER as a verb:

1. (chatter, click) = click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"

2. cut unevenly with a chattering tool

3. (chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit) = talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

4. (chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble) = speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

5. make noise as if chattering away; "The magpies were chattering in the trees"