(US, usually, pejorative) To break into or participate in a conversation, especially where there is much interruption by other speakers.
Everyone was talking at once. I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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