Crossword clues for confab
confab
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confab \Con"fab\, n. [Contr. from confabulation.] Familiar talk or conversation. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1701, colloquial shortening of confabulation.
Wiktionary
n. A casual talk or chat. vb. To speak casually with; to chat.
WordNet
v. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action" [syn: confer, confabulate, consult]
[also: confabbing, confabbed]
n. an informal conversation [syn: chat, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
[also: confabbing, confabbed]
Usage examples of "confab".
By mutual agreement they had also made the decision to exclude Sarah from their confabs, feeling that her sudden closeness to Jonathan was suspicious.
Lord Elephant, some five miles away another important confab was taking place.
Stiglitz over several days, at Cambridge University, in a London hotel and finally in Washington in April 2001 during the big confab of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
He felt cocky when he left the briefing, taking the nonpsychiatric reports under his arm, promising to report for a second confab this afternoon at City Hall.
Barney Kiernan's and there, sure enough, was the citizen up in the corner having a great confab with himself and that bloody mangy mongrel, Garryowen, and he waiting for what the sky would drop in the way of drink.
When he saw them, it would be a quick men's room confab: don't believe the bad things you hear about me.
We could not well go to the private nightly confabs of the members--indeed, they did not invite us.
Louis, whereupon Susan stayed up in the room to read comics while Marilyn confabbed with some other pageant moms, learning that Eugene was staying alone in the same hotel because Renata was stuck in Bloomington coping with demand for the following month's Big 'n' Proud convention in Tampa, Florida.
Louis, whereupon Susan stayed up in the room to read comics while Marilyn confabbed with some other pageant moms, learning that Eugene was staying alone in the same hotel because Renata was stuck in Bloomington coping with demand for the following month's Big 'n' Proud convention in Tampa, Florida.
Although this information was later suppressed by the jealous Athenians, Babylon was the intellectual capital of the world in those days, a place where Phoenician and Jew, Bedouin and Egyptian, Persian and Indian, could meet in cheerful confab in one of the city's many coffee housesfor Babylon had learned the great secret of coffee, espresso style, the steamed water pushed through the fragrant brew by great bellows operated by the Nubians and Ethiopians who had a monopoly on the trade.