chill out
phrasal verb.to relax completely or stop worrying about something. You use this when you want to spend time doing nothing stressful.
phrasal verb.to relax or calm down; often used as an intransitive imperative to suggest a reduction in emotional intensity or stress.
“I just want to chill out and watch a movie.”
“After a long week at the office, we usually go to the park to chill out.”
“The atmosphere at the retreat was designed to help guests chill out and disconnect from their digital lives entirely.”
very common in informal speech; can be used as a command to tell someone to stop being angry.
contrast with 'relax' to show register difference; 'chill out' is much more casual and popular among younger speakers.
this phrasal verb is usually intransitive and does not take a reflexive pronoun like 'yourself'.
From chill and out.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.