Some empty small talk about snoozes (7)

'snoozes' is the definition.
('drowse' can be a synonym of 'snooze')

'some empty small talk about' is the wordplay.
'empty' means to remove the middle letters.
'small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size).
'talk' becomes 'word' ().
'about' says the letters should be written backwards.
'some' with its middle removed is 'se'.
'se'+'s'+'word'='sesword'
'sesword' in reverse letter order is 'DROWSES'.