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Took cornet out of trench coat or that's the talk online (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chat

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'that's the talk online' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'took cornet out of trench coat' is the wordplay.
'took' becomes 'cat' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'out' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'of' becomes 'o''.
'coat' indicates putting letters inside.
'o'+'trench'='otrench'
'otrench' with 'cornet' taken out is 'h'.
'cat' placed around 'h' is 'CHAT'.

'or' is the link.

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(Other definitions for chat that I've seen before include "waffle?" , "Natter" , "Tom in 22 [ALSACE]" , "Exchange text or voice messages through a computer" , "Talk familiarly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and The Irish Times.
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