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To sit in on a conversation, meeting, card-game or online chat and offer unsolicited, informal comments. The original meaning from Yiddish (kibitzen, derived from German kiebitzen - to be an onlooker or spectator) had a negative connotation of being a busybody or giving intrusive, meddlesome, unwanted advice. However, in contemporary US usage, it has become friendlier.
She's meeting with some suits this afternoon, do you want to come kibitz and liven things up?

I'm not here as a formal participant, I'm just kibitzing.

Quit kibitzing! I know how to play Texas hold 'em.
kibitz by LiamK2 January 17, 2011
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Kabitzin 

To screw around and do things with nothing worthwhile in mind.
"Hey, wanna go to the party Saturday?"

"Nope, I'm grounded. I got sent to the office for kabitzin in class."
Kabitzin by LindseyP December 23, 2006
To meddle and give unwanted advice. kuh-Ib-itz
Stop kibitzing, I want to live my own life.
Kibitz by The Man November 30, 2004
A wasteman. Can’t teach math for shit.
Bruh your teacher is a kubisz
kubisz by MrWallahi January 16, 2020

Kabitzin 

Noun;
1.) The act of a person or group of people talking during inappropriate times and often times about gossip
2.)When a person talks to another while ignoring another person, most likely a teacher giving a lesson
Teacher: Staci, Jackie, Kelly and Kathy go to the office now

Jackie: What for miss?
Teacher: You were all kabitzin about prom while i was teaching. I gave you three warnings. Go now!
Kabitzin by Topher8 March 4, 2010

Kabitzing 

the mingling at parents dinner parties. to talk about pointless things such as your current schooling.
i hate kabitzing with those old woman who tell me how much i've grown and don't realize that i am their same age.
Kabitzing by Magenta May 13, 2005
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