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gabfest

[ gab-fest ]

noun

, Informal.
  1. a gathering at which there is a great deal of conversation.
  2. a long conversation.


gabfest

/ ˈɡæbfɛst /

noun

  1. prolonged gossiping or conversation
  2. an informal gathering for conversation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gabfest1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; gab 1 + fest
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gabfest1

C19: from gab 1+ fest
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Example Sentences

Perhaps no show has generated as many headlines lately as “The Pat McAfee Show,” a lunchtime gabfest featuring beefy men in neon tank tops.

The gabfest at the Swiss ski resort, just a month after the latest U.N. climate conference, wasn’t likely to push forward the effort to battle global warming.

The World Economic Forum, which opens Tuesday and runs through Friday, is an annual gabfest of business, political and other elites in the Alpine snows of Davos, Switzerland.

Valderrama also carved out a niche in D.C.’s media landscape far removed from Sunday political gabfests: “The Slab Hour,” an internet radio show broadcast from a Georgia Avenue studio.

Familiarity — not anything newfangled — is what brings audiences back for seconds, or in the case of ABC’s gabfest, “The View,” 26ths.

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