confab
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
Etymology
Origin of confab
First recorded in 1695–1705; by shortening
Example Sentences
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South by Southwest, the March Texas confab for music, film and tech, was among the first festivals to feel a pinch this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
If things get too exciting, and action seems imminent, players will frequently call timeout to have a confab in the middle of the field.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
Executives bided their time behind stanchions in a fully-occupied and grey-carpeted room with bright overhead lighting in the Congress Center, the event hub for the annual confab in Davos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Both speeches were delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an annual confab of the globe’s political and financial leaders that usually sparks little interest outside its walls.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
While Jerry G. talked to Lord Elephant, some five miles away another important confab was taking place.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
They confabbed with doctors about his condition and translated their diagnoses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2016
They confabbed in the centre of the clearing, and then hailed the table in the strange tongue.
From The White Waterfall by Dwyer, James Francis
They confabbed for a while, and as Piddie comes out he's still explainin' how he's sure he don't know, but most likely Mr. Robert understands all about it.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
He'd confabbed with several Bakery men in this city, and was about to make a deal.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Wells, Carolyn
Mr. Percival was at home; and, without waiting to be announced, Ellery sprang up the stairs to the little sanctum where the two had confabbed on many a day.
From Jewel Weed by Fisher, Harrison
In the film, which is part adventurous lark and part character study, Ballesta controls the frame as the unassuming Urtubia, who began as a simple bricklayer and rose to confabbing with Fidel Castro.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
The Twitter conversation was dominated by confabbing about Facebook; many of those occupying the fringe forums were first exposed to the sinister theories that now obsess them on Facebook.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
Who else would spend the morning after the premiere of his new film, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, confabbing with Angela Merkel about the international refugee crisis?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2016
But days of private confabbing failed to spin a single propeller.
From Time Magazine Archive
Didn't matter, my parents' house was legally mine, while they were up confabbing with their alien buds on the mothaship.
From Shadow of the Mothaship by Doctorow, Cory
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