Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chatter n.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

chatter-basket (n.)

a small, noisy child; synons. incl. chatter-bags, chatter-bladder, chatter-cart and (US) chatter-bones.

[UK]Bridges (3rd edn) Burlesque Homer 350: He’d [...] spoke his mind because he reckon’d / Old Chatterbags would be his second.
[UK]Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 122: [as cit. 1772].
[UK]Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
[UK]Sl. Dict.
[US]M.G. Hayden ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in DN IV:iii 208: chatter-box, -basket, -bones, -cart, incessant talker. ‘You are such a chatter-box and never say anything either.’.
chattergun (n.) [its noise]

a machinegun or sub-machinegun.

[US]J. Wilstach Under Cover Man 8: Tracin’ that chattergun might mean a couple of square shooters ridin’ the thunderbolt.
[US]S. Sterling ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 228/2: Watch it. They got a chatter gun.
[US]D. Pendleton Executioner (1973) 16: Another chattergun had joined the action.
R. Harding Outrider II Ch. 11: 🌐 Did he have three blades on his hip? And a shotgun? And a haul-ass car with a big chattergun on the back?
chattermag

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