Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A casual talk; confabulation.
- intransitive verb To talk casually.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confabulate; chat.
- noun Familiar talk or conversation; chat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. Familiar talk or conversation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
speak casually with; tochat . - noun A casual
talk or chat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
- verb have a conference in order to talk something over
- noun an informal conversation
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Examples
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Indeed, the Nicaraguan leader recently skipped a SICA meeting entirely, claiming the confab was a sham and had been designed and promoted by the U.S.
Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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Indeed, the Nicaraguan leader recently skipped a SICA meeting entirely, claiming the confab was a sham and had been designed and promoted by the U.S.
Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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Indeed, the Nicaraguan leader recently skipped a SICA meeting entirely, claiming the confab was a sham and had been designed and promoted by the U.S.
Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? Nikolas Kozloff 2010
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Indeed, the Nicaraguan leader recently skipped a SICA meeting entirely, claiming the confab was a sham and had been designed and promoted by the U.S.
Nikolas Kozloff: U.S. Marines to Costa Rica: What's Behind the Story? 2010
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The confab is the biggest event of its kind in the United States.
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The confab is the biggest event of its kind in the United States.
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For his part, Curry thinks podcasting's tipping point is likely to be BloggerCon , Dave Winer's blogging confab, which is scheduled for November 6 at Stanford University.
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The young ladies were sitting by the emptied hampers, deep in confab.
Melbourne House 1907
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Raising shot glasses of Prohibition whiskey, the confab was a toast to
SFGate: Top News Stories Catherine Bigelow 2011
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In late October, Oprah called a confab in Los Angeles and met with everyone associated with OWN.
Deadline.com 2009
slumry commented on the word confab
an informal conversation, especially for the purpose of problem solving; short for confabulation. Let's have a confab!
July 26, 2007
pikachu commented on the word confab
You could see these two roaming about all day long with their heads close together in an everlasting confab. --Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
March 9, 2011