Inflected forms: schmoozed or schmoosed also shmoozed, schmooz·ing or schmoos·ing, shmooz·ing, schmooz·es or schmoos·es, shmooz·es
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Slang To converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
To engage in schmoozing with: “how to be a professional artist—how to be a businessperson, how to schmooze the collectors” (Paige Powell, in a quote in an article by Michiko Kakutani in the NYT magazine Nov 17 1996).
NOUN:
The act or an instance of schmoozing.
ETYMOLOGY:
Yiddish shmuesn, possibly from shmues, a chat, pl. of shmue, rumor; akin to Hebrew mû‘â, rumor. See mc in Appendix II.
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mû‘â, rumor. See 
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