Debatable gift

Usage examples of gab.

It was Gabbing Dick who was sprawled before him and one thing was clear.

He would never go there again, and had given up his rooms in the district, so that there was no trace of his ever having been near the pub or Gabbing Dick.

The police, of course, had no knowledge that Gabbing Dick had had access to even more dubious circles than those of East End criminals.

The devil of it was, thought Ralph despairingly, that with Gabbing Dick dead, the only way in which they were going to find out who and what were behind the mysterious deaths was through Clare.

Clare was unaware of the deaths of Gabbing Dick and Lance Milford or she would have included them in her list.

For starters, he had not thought that his real name was known to Gabbing Dick, and he wondered rapidly and frantically how Dick could have found it out since he had gone to great lengths to keep his identity secret.

We do know that Gabbing Dick went to The Jolly Pirate, but left shortly before nine with two men.

It was, however, impossible to believe that he had been wandering about Limehouse keeping an assignation with a criminal called Gabbing Dick!

Neither of them could think of any reason why Gabbing Dick should have made an assignation with Ralph Schuyler--if that was what the paper meant.

For one moment, when I asked him about Gabbing Dick I could have sworn that Master Ralph Schuyler was genuinely shocked, and put off his stroke a little.

He was also certain that Gabbing Dick had wanted to warn him that one way or another his death had been ordered--and that he had been killed for his pains.

Scotland Yard to tell them where the possible murderer of Gabbing Dick was to be found, and that he had been in a car accident--and where to find the car.

What she did not know, and Ralph could not tell her, for he could scarcely believe it himself, was that for some strange reason, even as she had spoken to him of Gabbing Dick, Ralph had remembered what it was that he had heard which had troubled his subconscious mind for the last few days.

It was she, who by her reference to Gabbing Dick, had jogged his memory, and opened up a whole new line of thought--about which he needed to consult the Colonel.

Yard that a man named Sid Jones who had been left at the hospital was involved in the murder of the minor criminal, Gabbing Dick, about whom I questioned you some days ago.