noun
confab
Confab (noun) means (informal) A casual chat.
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(informal) A casual chat.
"The delegates must, of course, hold endless private confabs before they meet in order to take any formal action."
— John Jay Chapman, Below the Cataract: The Great Moment of Calm between War and Peace (1919)
"A few unexpected nerves took over as we waited to board the São Paulo plane. Phone calls and confabs behind the scenes between officials holding the pile of passports had us worried."
— Ciro Roberto Bustos, Onwards to Bolivia and Argentina: May—June 1963 (2013)
"On a blistering afternoon earlier this month, Jessay Martin, 68, headed across the street for the usual poolside confab, stopping to grab a Bud Light Seltzer Pineapple from the fridge on his way out to the patio."
— Charley Locke, ‘Grandfluencers’ Are Sharing a New Vision of Old Age (2022)
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Etymology
Clipping of confabulation, from Middle English confabulacion (“conversation”), from Latin confābulātiōnem, from cōnfābulārī + -tiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results); see further at etymology 2.
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What is the meaning of confab?
"confab" (noun) means (informal) A casual chat.
What is another word for confab?
Other words for "confab" include chat, schmooze, confabulation, schmoose.
