to chat, to shoot the breeze
Não tinha nada para fazer, fiquei batendo papo com a Rita.
I had nothing to do, I was chatting with Rita.
In bater papo, papo is derived from the Portuguese papar ("to eat"), itself from Latin pappare. Among the word’s meanings are the pouch at the base of a bird’s throat and, in Brazilian informal speech, "talk". These senses do not by themselves date the development of the expression.
Source: Priberam.
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