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confab

[ noun kon-fab; verb kuhn-fab, kon-fab ]

verb (used without object)

, con·fabbed, con·fab·bing.
  1. They spent the morning confabbing over coffee in my office.

confab

/ ˈkɒnfæb /

noun

  1. a conversation or chat


verb

  1. intr to converse

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Word History and Origins

Origin of confab1

First recorded in 1695–1705; by shortening

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Example Sentences

Try bringing that up at the next confab at the Renaissance Esmeralda, if you really want to be shown the door.

One donor complains about the takeout chicken pot pies served at a Karl Rove-hosted confab.

On the first afternoon of the three-day confab, as guests are still strolling in, the booth already has attracted a crowd.

It bills itself as the first stop on the road to the White House, but many GOP players skipped the New Orleans confab.

Trump was in New Orleans for the Republican Leadership Conference, a semi-annual conservative confab.

The second grammar class had been relieved from a recitation by this confab, and somehow Perry had a subduing influence.

Some confab followed, and I overheard enough to tell me that a scouting party had come in, bringing a prisoner.

Mr. Cardross joined us, divining the subject of our furtive confab in the patio, and he seemed to think that you ought to come.

He and Yuma had spent hours in close confab in the kitchen, and Yuma had expressed his feelings, confidentially, to Gimlet.

From this I turned to listen to a very domestic confab between a Judy and her mate.

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